PowerPoint. It’s ubiquitous. It’s also evil and makes us stupid. PowerPoint has even played a role in our disastrous military policy. The constraints of its format have shackled our minds, blinkered our perceptions and misdirected our actions.
A new political party in Switzerland seeks a ban on the use of Powerpoint and similar slideware. International response has been so great that this has become a worldwide movement.
Sign up today. The meeting you save may be your own.
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Tags: Anti Powerpoint Party, APPP, keynote, meetings, PowerPoint, presentation software, presentations, slideware, Switzerland
NotionsCapital 
July 13, 2011 at 12:06 am
Only to be wished for.
Are bullet points allowed?
Made for the seriously, and imaginatively, deficient.
NOT idiot-proof. Rather more idiot prove-able.
Microsoft? A PC fool’s paradise.