Are computers important?

Abstract

Thank you Mr. Chairman, for your generous introduction which is clearly designed to ensure me, up to this moment, some measure of respect. You were too polite to suspect that what I really need is your sympathy: yesterday afternoon tea and sympathy (preferably from my dear friend, Deborah Kerr), and today luncheon and sympathy from E. J. C. C. It is a terrible thing to be the only confused person among 2,500 pellucid philosophers busily propogating their electric poetry through electric plumbing.