Yeah, absolutely, and I thought the same thing when listening to Bruce Sterling's SXSW talk. I don't know the technical name for it - it's the professorial thin

Yeah, absolutely, and I thought the same thing when listening to Bruce Sterling's SXSW talk. I don't know the technical name for it - it's the professorial thing where the speaker lowers the tone of the voice at the end of the sentence (like the opposite of what you do when asking a question).