SESSION | 7 Well, in our conferences we believe in mixed doubles and we are very glad you are here for that reason. We do toss the ball back and forth across the net, and I think this is the only way in which the Necessary Communication adjunct to all the computerizing and to the treading can be fulfilled. , RBRUES: Where is the net? FREMONT-SMITH: Well, the net is alightly visionary but it is right here, there's no question about it. [t's a kind of a curved net and it's also one that moves around and shifts it’s position from tune to time, L will take one more ininute to ask you to just consider the differ. ence between a speech and a conversation. Nuw, [I'm the only person who is allowed to make a speech here and even Fim being interrupted, thank Godfor that. I'm glad of it. Butina speech, unless a person is one of those rare birds like George Wald who can just capture a whole group of people and carry them with him, one makes a series of statements which are bound to be misunderstood, of dilerenatly understood, by the majority of the people in the audience, The audicnce also, if paying attention to what is being said, is bound to have a number of ideas, challenges, doubts. Hut, since it is not polite to interrupt when someone is making a speech, excepting in my case, all these ideas, thoughts, doubts that come to mind have to be repressed. This is why listening to a speech is so exe hausting. You spend all your time and energy repressing every idea you have or else you settle down and docdle and think about something else, which isn't very effective. , Now, in a conversation, of course, you've got something else. You've got a mutually corrective feedback system which keeps the people in the conversation on the same wavelength or lets them know very promptly if they are not on the same wavelengtn. In the speech there is one person in the room who really gets satigfact.on from the apeech, and that is the man who is making the speech, ccoaunse he ons a “ty E pone ie ig ase aeSepre hears himself saying what he plans to say, the words come vst very much as he planned to say them, and there is a tremenoous amount of reassurance and satisfaction, [ aee Jetle is shaking his head, DE BOER: That's not true. I've tried to make speeches ang they never came out the way I planned them! [laughter] I wish it were true, but go ahead.