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Drooling on the Pillow
Friday, May 05, 2006
Power Corrupts, PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely
 Edward R. Tufte is professor emeritus of political science, computer science and statistics, and graphic design at Yale. He sounds like just the guy to take on the PowerPointification of argument, which is designed to insulate positions from rebuttal by simulating consecutive thought and actually presenting discrete chunks of self-evident twaddle. He's especially horrified by the inroads PowerPoint has made in schools, where instead of writing essays, "children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials". The title of this post and the graphic are taken from his article in Wired. H/T Alex Singleton, at Samizdata. |
