Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Is PowerPoint the devil?
"What sort of world is reflected in PowerPoint? A world stripped down to briefly summarized essences, a world snipped clean of the annoying underbrush of ambiguity and complication. "
Entertaining and provocative, this essay suggests that Powerpoint has become thinking for the MTV generation: summarised, short and glitzy, lacking the depth and tonality necessary to understand the real world. It arguers that it constrains your creativity, defeats your passions for communication, and reduces life to simple truths. It may even be true.
"What sort of world is reflected in PowerPoint? A world stripped down to briefly summarized essences, a world snipped clean of the annoying underbrush of ambiguity and complication. "
Entertaining and provocative, this essay suggests that Powerpoint has become thinking for the MTV generation: summarised, short and glitzy, lacking the depth and tonality necessary to understand the real world. It arguers that it constrains your creativity, defeats your passions for communication, and reduces life to simple truths. It may even be true.
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