Jason Kottke, following my lead, talks today about the PowerPoint article in the New Yorker. He points out a similar article in USA today. My favorite quote from that article:
It does help lay out thoughts in a coherent manner," he adds, "but it breeds a dependency the likes of which I've only seen in heroin users and Starbucks coffee drinkers. Has anyone seen Microsoft salespeople hanging around school yards yet?
Funny he should bring that up. Microsoft proudly notes that PowerPoint is increasingly being found in K-12 schools. "Students are using PowerPoint for show-and-tell," says a PR document.
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