PowerPoint Addiction

I’m a fan of PowerPoint. I’ve used it for years, and I’m pretty adept with it. It can be pretty effective if used properly, and I happily employ it quite often when I give talks. I’ve even invented things for it, like the method for making automated slides and slidesets for journal articles, something a lot of journals subsequently adopted. So I perk up when a wave of PowerPoint critics begins to stomp around the infosphere, which they’ve been doing again of late.

PowerPoint is the problem, these critics contend. It leads to poor presentations full of slides that are boring, too reliant on text and bulleted lists, and predictably dull.