"Interactive," like "post-modern," is an impressive word, though no one precisely knows what it means. This can be confusing--not to mention annoying-but the lack of a clear definition provides a good launching point for brainstorming. We'll leave "post-modern" to the Derrida theorists. What does interactive mean, then? Let's break it down into components: "inter," means through (a relationship is established between two objects) and "active," means it actually does something. Using this defin.