New York Times :: The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide
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> Once upon a time, a party host could send dread
> through the room by saying, "Let me show you the
> slides from our trip!" Now, that dread has spread to
> every corner of the culture, with schoolchildren
> using the program to write book reports, and
> corporate managers blinking mindlessly at
> PowerPoint charts and bullet lists projected onto
> giant screens as a disembodied voice reads
>
> • every
>
> • word
>
> • on
>
> • every
>
> • slide.
>
> When the bullets are flying, no one is safe.

What I want to know as someone who's never created a PowerPoint presentation (but has sat through a few) is: what's with that 80s, Eye-on-LA, PowerPoint theme? Can't you change that?
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 8:55 AM

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