The poetics of Powerpoint
May 15, 2003
Edward Tufte sets his sights on "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint," in which he argues that our growing reliance on presentation-ware leads to a weakening of verbal and spatial reasoning skills, and "almost always corrupt statistical analysis" (via Ed).
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