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You've all watched them, and many of you made them, either for school project presentations of professional purposes. The utility of Microsoft's PowerPower is undeniable, but it has come under critical scrutiny.
In Ex-Talking Head Makes PowerPoint Art it is said ,"Visual artists say Microsoft Corp.'s popular "slideware" — which makes it easy to incorporate animated graphics and other entertainment into presentations — lulls people into accepting pablum over ideas. Foes say PowerPoint's ubiquity perverts everything from elementary school reports to NASA's scientific theses into sales pitches with bullet points and stock art."
Further, "'People are asking whether, ultimately, PowerPoint makes us all stupid, or does it help us streamline our thoughts?' said Norvig, who first saw Talking Heads in the late '70s. 'My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.' One of the Internet's inventors, Vint Cerf, gets laughs from audiences by quipping, 'Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.'"
There's a PowerPoint paraody of the Gettysburg Address and Edward Tufte has an essay called The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint if you are interested further in the criticism surrounding PowerPoint.
What do you think, is PowerPoint a useful tool or is it weak for planning purposes?
In Ex-Talking Head Makes PowerPoint Art it is said ,"Visual artists say Microsoft Corp.'s popular "slideware" — which makes it easy to incorporate animated graphics and other entertainment into presentations — lulls people into accepting pablum over ideas. Foes say PowerPoint's ubiquity perverts everything from elementary school reports to NASA's scientific theses into sales pitches with bullet points and stock art."
Further, "'People are asking whether, ultimately, PowerPoint makes us all stupid, or does it help us streamline our thoughts?' said Norvig, who first saw Talking Heads in the late '70s. 'My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.' One of the Internet's inventors, Vint Cerf, gets laughs from audiences by quipping, 'Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.'"
There's a PowerPoint paraody of the Gettysburg Address and Edward Tufte has an essay called The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint if you are interested further in the criticism surrounding PowerPoint.

What do you think, is PowerPoint a useful tool or is it weak for planning purposes?