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Does PowerPoint make us stupid?
AP via CNN ^ | 12/30/2003 | AP

Posted on 12/30/2003 10:28:22 AM PST by JennysCool

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- David Byrne, an accomplished composer, photographer and lead singer of Talking Heads, has evolved -- some would say devolved -- into an unlikely artistic medium: PowerPoint.

Best known for vocals in "Psycho Killer" and "Burning Down the House," Byrne originally intended to spoof the ubiquitous software as a dumbed-down form of expression between communication-addled business executives.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: byrne; coffeetablebook; powerpoint
Have at it, PP junkies and phobes!
1 posted on 12/30/2003 10:28:23 AM PST by JennysCool
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To: JennysCool; Admin Moderator
Beaten to death like an old horse yesterday ...
2 posted on 12/30/2003 10:30:14 AM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: JennysCool
Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint.
3 posted on 12/30/2003 10:32:25 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: BlueNgold
"same as it ever was........."
4 posted on 12/30/2003 10:36:21 AM PST by EggsAckley (......................... IT'S NOT MY FAULT ! ! ! ...................................)
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To: JennysCool
"Does PowerPoint make us stupid?"

Probably - but so does posting the same article on this website for at least the third time.
5 posted on 12/30/2003 10:39:44 AM PST by reed_inthe_wind (That Hillary really knows how to internationalize my MOJO.)
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