5 SESSION1 It may happen at the earliest words that they say, or even before they start to speak, but we hope that they will be prepared for this and know that they can interrupt the interrupters, maybe. The job of the thinks they ougit tions in terms of than anyone else we are after. discussion initiator iv not w icll the others what he to know, but rather to evoke fron: thermtheir quesvhat they need to know, because they know better what their needs are. This is the essence of what We are dealing, as all of you are even more aware than Iam, with an information explosion. We are told—and the fiyures are nut very accurate—that there ace more than 20.500 articles published in journals in the bro-scirentific field per year. Lhe figure on the number of journals is very inaccurate at the moment, but they are showing up fairly rafadly. So, there are many, many journals, and many, many articles, and it's absolutely trapossible for anybody to be up even on the narrowest field, or at least be sure he is upetodate, because he can't be sure what's been going on in Argentine last week or what will be going on in Geneva next week which may bring out some inforination that he had no idea of at all. HRUES: Atl { meant by my warning to the initiators, Frank, «as that they should not have morethan twenty or thirty minutes worth of gasoline in their tanks’ [Laughter] FREMONT-SMITH: This is absolutely fine, but thia gasoline is to be spread over what happens when you're driving in a crowded city. It will be a stop and go situation: burmper te bumper. 1 thoak we are twenty-two, maybe twenty-three people here. Hoeach person’ here shook hands with everybody else once, who can quickly come up with a figure of how many handshakes would hive taken place”? It won't take you very long. Anybody” AYRES: (22 x 1°) 2 : One-hundred and ninety if there are twenty people — FREMOWT-SMITH: . This gives you ar idea of the number of pose sible interactions. If everybody apoke once, there would be many dialogues that would take place, and we hope ‘that several ot you will speak more than once. So, this is the opportunity, and it’s really quite surprising how many interactions there are. Not all verbal, either.