PowerPoint is Evil?
Following the Columbia disaster much criticism has been directed at the use of PowerPoint to present technical data. An American professor, Edward Tufte, has published a book with the title "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" in which he tears this software tool apart as being superficial, presenter-friendly but listener/viewer-unfriendly and having a very low infomration density. He also blasts PowerPoint as being only useful for the "sales pitch" and for transmitting a "commercial attitude to everything". Tufte originally published his views in Wired under the title "PowerPoint is evil".
Maybe you have heard the little story being banded around the Internet?: The Devil is interviewing applicants for the job of being his assistant and says: "I am looking for someone well versed in the art of torturee - do you know PowerPoint"?
Maybe you have heard the little story being banded around the Internet?: The Devil is interviewing applicants for the job of being his assistant and says: "I am looking for someone well versed in the art of torturee - do you know PowerPoint"?
posted by Sven Grahn | 9/12/2005
1 Comments:
I've always suspect somethig like that. But it always happen with any program, when users tend to owerestimate its abilities.
Moreover, program don't have any abilities by itself.
And pose PowerPoint as substinute to one's creativity, is just the same as to hammer nails with stangencircule, oh sorry, vernier calipers...
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