Tufte (was: PROVEN: PowerPoint makes you dumb)

All,

I heard Mr. Tufte make the following comment [paraphrased] at one of his
presentations:

"There are only two industries in the world that refer to their customers as
users."

Thanks,

Bond

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Subject: Re: [Micronet] 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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