May 16, 2003

Unplugging PowerPoint
Posted by jbutler@bostonworks.com">Jason Butler at 10:58 AM -

Business 2.0 on how PowerPoint frustrates, with special guest commentary from Edward Tufte.

The problem with PowerPoint is that instead of being a visual tool used to illustrate certain elements in a presentation, the slides have become the whole presentation. Sure, there are some outstanding public speakers who can use PowerPoint with wit and confidence, but those presentations account for a small fraction of those trillions of slides generated each year. Just as using a word processor doesn't make someone a better writer, structuring presentations with PowerPoint won't improve the quality of an individual's ideas.

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