How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid includes a fascinating mini-history of PowerPoint's emergence, as well as a sobering and surprising account of its reach into the most unsuspecting nooks of work, life, and education. He shows how PowerPoint has promoted a new, slippery "grammar," where faulty causality, sloppy logic, decontextualized data, and seductive showmanship have replaced the traditional tools of persuasion and argument. Using fascinating examples (including the most famous PowerPoint presentation of all: Colin Powell's indictment of Iraq before the United Nations), Frommer systematically deconstructs the slides, bulleted lists, and flashy graphics we all now take for granted.
In this revealing and powerfully argued book, author Franck Frommer shows us that PowerPoint's celebrated ease and efficiency actually mask a profoundly disturbing but little-understood transformation in human communication. tool for nearly all forms of public presentation-in schools, government agencies, the military, and, of course, offices everywhere. “LIFE IS TO BE LIVED, NOT CONTROLLED AND HUMANITY IS WON BY CONTINUING TO PLAY IN FACE OF CERTAIN DEFEAT.With over 500 million users worldwide, Microsoft's PowerPoint software has become the ubiquitous. (Which means no pair of jeans lasts as long as she wishes they would.)īut most importantly, Amelia is a Dreamer…she has dreams so big it scares even her, because if she fails…if she can’t make it…she feels like nothing. She has uneven boobs, stretch marks on her ass, astigmatism, and thighs that rub together as she walks. She can be a bitch, but doesn’t think there is anything wrong with that.
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