I went into the reading assignment this week expecting the fairly typical explanation of different ways of presenting digital media and a specific list of concerns. Instead, I got this (PowerPoint is Evil) and this (The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation). While both are humorous, they do make good points on how slideware programs more frequently than not create a presentation that is distracting, misleading, and even irrelevant. With all the talk how “how could we live without this?” few people actually consider what the actual answer to that question is.
Image used by Tufte to drive his points about PowerPoint home.