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In this case, its very clearly a case of powerpoint facilitating dumb behavior. It encourages oversimplification.
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My highschool required us to use PowerPoint quite often, and most of my power point pressentations contained very little information, and are summed up in this quote
quote: If you have nothing to say, maybe you need just the right tool to help you not say it.
Once three guys in my history class used powerpoint to "prove" that Richard Nixon was the greatest, and most succesful president in American history. I may have just accidently started a debate about Nixon, but the point is basically that if you are good with a computer (like way better than I am with a computer) and have to use powerpoint to pressent an idea, than you can make any idea sound like a great idea.
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Both the article and the comic are so true. It's not that PP makes you dumb, it's just a great enabler for those already afflicted.
I've had management who never read the printed report where the real details and calculations were choose projects based on the PP presentations alone. Then they're surprised when the project loses money. Idiots.
The same goes for the "Executive Summary" at the beginning of a report.
What makes them think that the PP could possibly include all the relevant information?
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(exhibit B dissolves into parallel bars, exhibit C flies from left, accompanied by clipart stolen directly from MSoffice. Probably one of those black stick figures with a light bulb over his head.)
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