How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have Taken Over Our Thinking
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1595587020 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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For anyone concerned with the corruption of language, the dumbing-down of society, or the unchecked expansion of efficiency” in our culture, here is a book that will become a rallying cry for turning the tide.. With over 500 million users worldwide, Microsoft’s PowerPoint software has become the ubiquitous tool for nearly all forms of public presentationin schools, government agencies, the military, and, of course, offices everywhere. 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.Using fascinating examples (including the most famous PowerPoint presentation of all: Colin Powell&rsq
An original and brilliant study Frommer’s call to resist the powerpointization” of our souls carries in it the lucidity of a new social critique.Les InrockuptiblesTo the executive who never dozed off after lunch in an atmosphere subdued by a PowerPoint meeting, who never experienced the desperation of trying to summarizean entire year’s work in ten slides and fifty bullet points: throw the first projector atFranck Frommer.Le MondeIn an in-depth study, Franck Frommer has unearthed a new killer of brain cells.Télérama
PowerPoint is A Problem, But Not THE Problem Can we all agree that PowerPoint is the most overused software product ever? The number of presentations that are given without PowerPoint is probably insignificant.Author Franck Frommer is a French biographer and former journalist and business communications specialis. "Good Chronicle of the Rise of PowerPoint Thinking" according to Fred Cheyunski. This reviewer prefers the French title "le powerpoint pense" or "PowerPoint thinking" to the one given for the English title as it seems more apt for the book. (Some other aspects of the translation entail some language and French sources which offer contrasts to an Am. David Oberpriller said PowerPoint Only Part of the Problem. Author Franck Frommer makes some very good points about the state of business communication and its reliance on PowerPoint -- in this respect I generally agree with reviewer "takingadayoff."For a French author writing in French (as the original book was) there is a dis