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ISSN 1496-3221

October 23, 2000

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Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, now we’re all doomed to enter the era of slideware. Hold on to your Photoshop palettes, kids. That breeze you’re feeling on the back of your neck is the self-replicating democratization of a million indecipherable business graphics careening willy-nilly through slide sorters around the globe.

“A good PowerPoint presentation is extremely important. You need it to paint a story around your points, you need it to connect with the visual types. PowerPoint is one of the best ways to connect with important people who are too busy to read your business plan.”

I guess I’ve had it backwards all this time. I’ve always been under the impression that PowerPoint was the one of the best ways to create the illusion of a business plan without actually having to write one. Hey visual types! When was the last time you connected with a PowerPoint presentation. And remember, as profound an effect it has on your ability to understand a given concept, migraines do not count as connections. Neither does repeatedly slamming your head into your monitor.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

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