PowerPoint Rangers & Hypnotizing Chickens
It’s just a tool. It can be used for good or for ill. If an argument is complicated and would take an hour or more to understand while reading a written article or a report, software and a projector can’t help. A clever slide deck can’t condense the learning experience so that it happens in 30 minutes. That’s just asking too much. Besides, thinking you can cure weak thinking from a speaker by taking visual aides away is terribly mistaken.
Most presentations would improve dramatically if presenters simply understood that the slides are for the audience and not them. Presenters need their own notes or script.
Also, Keynote is better.
UPDATED: Erik Voeten writes: “I wonder whether people are being nostalgic for something that never existed: the idea that the average meeting/presentation was once both interesting and informative.”
