Re: PROVEN: PowerPoint makes you dumb

There is a small bibliography on this topic at

http://norvig.com/lancet.html

The bibliography includes a link to the May 2001
New Yorker article on PowerPoint, which leads off:

"Before there were presentations, there were
conversations, which were a little like presentations
but used fewer bullet points."

Norvig's bibliography also includes a link to Tufte's page.

I don't care for PP myself but then I'm not
important enough to need to prepare presentations : )

leigh

Michael Sinatra wrote:
> This NYT article describes a recent essay by Edward Tufte, the great
> information-visualization guru, in which he asserts that slideware (the
> most popular example of which is PowerPoint, but also includes MagicPoint,
> the OpenOffice slideware module, etc.) is often better at obfuscating
> information than clearly presenting it:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html?ex=1071982800&en=799ad449b398c2d7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
>
> I'd also commend Tufte's website, where the essay and an excellent poster
> can be ordered:
>
> http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
>
> I especially like the "But why read every slide aloud??" thought baloon
> above one of the Red Army soldiers. (Apparently most slideware presenters
> don't think their audiences have progressed to the point of literacy.)
>
> michael

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Received on Mon Dec 15 10:13:13 2003