by David Sparks

 

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4:27PM

We Have Met the Enemy …

and He Is PowerPoint.

While this sort of abuse is equally possible with Keynote, I’d like to think most Keynote users know better.

Reader Comments (3)

Remember. PowerPoint doesn't kill people. People kill people. (it's the author of the presentation that bores us to death.)

It was meant to be overwhelming to show the insanely complex, interlocking issues involved. It was not meant to be an Edward Tufte-ian display of transcendent, concise information design, and this was clearly understood, as the Times piece underscored:

“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter.

April 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterBob

This was the best ling: “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina.

April 28, 2010 | Unregistered Commentermrs macsparky

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