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Loading...David Wilson writes, We now have a new war to fight: the war against PowerPoint, spearheaded by Yale political scientist Edward Tufte, an expert in the visual display of information. According to Tufte, PowerPoint’s bulleted lists encourage “generic, superficial, simplistic thinking.”
He adds, But, at the last conference I attended — a typical example — the PowerPoint lectures stuttered on, sometimes alleviated by a blast of animation — Crazy Frog did a turn. Tellingly, the speaker who made the most impact used no bells and whistles at all. She just talked engagingly, peppering her discourse with one-liners and spinning anecdotes.
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People seem to get into such a state about “PowerPoint good” or “Powerpoint bad”. The former blame the software, the latter blame the users for bad presentations.
Personally I take a middle ground and issue a plague upon both their houses 🙂 The software is no more automatically bad than a loaded gun, but the *odds* are that it’ll be used for something unwholesome.
Working as a presentation skills trainer, my experience is that most people don’t want to present and so they ‘hide’ behind PowerPoint, not realising that worse than hiding behind nothing, because it takes them by defaults into a world of mediocraty. That seems to be the whole MS standard though – planning for the lowest common denominator: good business sense and makes the whole of computing accessible to the masses, but at the cost of excellence……
I’m slightly tongue in cheek here, but only slightly….. 🙂
Simon