Posted on 05/07/2019 5:17:55 AM PDT by billorites
A crowd broke out into chants of "PowerPoint, PowerPoint, PowerPoint," at Democratic presidential hopeful and entrepreneur Andrew Yang's latest Seattle rally last week.
The chant broke out during a Friday rally at Gas Works Park in Seattle. Yang was reiterating his promise to become the first president to use PowerPoint in the State of the Union address when the audience responded by repeating "PowerPoint," according to GeekWire.
"I'm going to be the first president to use PowerPoint at the State of the Union, how do you feel about that?" Yang said. "Yes, this is the nerdiest presidential campaign in history!"
Yang is one of many contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination and faces an uphill battle in the primary.
He is facing candidates with a much higher profile and whose campaigns are heavily funded, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas).
Yang has called for universal basic income and lowering the voting age to 16 as part of his presidential platform.
Last week it was reported that Yang is working on a plan to give out $1,000 per month to two families in New Hampshire and Iowa as a way of demonstrating the benefits of his "Freedom Dividend" plan.
PowerPoint Is Evil
Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
by Edward Tufte
(Author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ppt2/
Tufte is fantastic. His books are landmarks.
Is that so he can remember the bullet points his staff write for him?
give him a ten minute challenge to create a Powerpoint slide stack.
"I don't have a Power Point for that one......... I'll get back to you.
Nerds don’t use PowerPoint, they memorize everything. Even all of the the scripts to every episode of a science fiction series.
Yuppies use PowerPoint.
Andrew Yang is an old Yuppie.
That’s right - political bullet points, just what the non-thinking, not able to think sheeple need.
G-d forbid he says something that critical thinking minds have to ponder. /sarc
Steve Jobs (Apple’s founder) wouldn’t allow anything but a whiteboard in the internal meetings he attended.
PowerPoint was a bad meeting joke 15 years ago...
PowerPoint Is Evil
Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.
by Edward Tufte
(Author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ppt2/
I use it a lot to teach Sunday school, and sometimes at work. But to do it right you really need to use the notes pane.
I love this guy’s schtick. He’s like a 21st century Pat Paulson. :)
PowerPoint is the business equivalent of getting captured by a showing of someone’s travel pix.
One bullet point in the example simpley states”Men Are Equal.” It would be interesting to hear what he would say about this. Our Constitution says that men are created equal. Men do not remain equal. Thomas Jefferson said, and I paraphrase, that it is a grave mistake to attempt to make unequal men equal.
The result is at best socialism. Usually it is oppression, tyranny, Cuba, North Korea, and etc.
The guy’s 3 main campaign themes are use more Powerpoint in government, ban circumcision, and give a universal basic income.
He’ll be fun to watch at least.
I might add...
Free money corrupts. Free taxpayer money corrupts absolutely.
Fun article. Still reading it.
Back around the turn of the century, my daughter needed to make a powerpoint presentation for a clss in her Senior year in HS. I helped her out.
We inserted images, music, photos and, of course text and graphics.
But being a computer programmer at the time, I knew how to test After we created it, we saved it to disk. We then took it to a different computer, loaded the disk, and the entire file had none of the images or music in it. Pictures were just big boxes with an x, etc.
That is when I learned about “exporting” rather than saving. So we did it right, burned another CD and it worked when we tested that one.
So, she and all her classmates gave their presentations. She got an A. She told me that hers was the only one that worked. :D
I had a similar problem recently, though. I taught a lesson about some Old Testament stuff and my main titles used a font that I downloaded to my desktop. It looked like ancient Hebrew script.
So I saved it to my Office 365 cloud account, and downloaded it to my wife’s touch screen laptop for the class. It seemed to be fine.
But when I got to class, I noticed it was using simple Ariel font where that one was supposed to be. The font needed to be loaded to my wife’s computer DOH!
I had to go with a different font. Fortunately I set up far enough in advance that I have time to fix stuff like that.
Powerpoint is extremely useful in business and teaching. It doens’t replace a written report. That’s what Word is for.
Millennials love power point because they cannot absorb “thinking” unless it’s shoved down their throat. I would love to see Reagan’s City on a hill or “Tear down this wall” given in PowerPoint.
These peoples donot have a vision.
I use a white board all the time. At my last three jobs, I was just about the only person to use a whiteboard. People thought it was weird, but also effective.
I think I’m also an effective user of PowerPoint. No one should read slides. A few high-level points to focus discussion isn’t that bad. But you need to know your stuff. You need to talk. You need to sell people on an idea that you believe in. The speaker should do the work, not the slide.
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