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Microsoft [[PowerPoint]] is an application for fools, blaggers and dilettantes. Sensible people have no truck with it. | Microsoft [[PowerPoint]] is an application for fools, blaggers and dilettantes. Sensible people have no truck with it. | ||
No novel , no play, no acerbic letter — no creative thought of any substance in history— ever first put its squealing voice in the cupped ear of the world only | No novel , no play, no acerbic letter — no creative thought of any substance in history— ever first put its squealing voice in the cupped ear of the world only thanks to a [[RAG status reporting]], a [[Gantt chart]], a [[cycle matrix]] or any of the other infuriating ministrations of [[PowerPoint]]. | ||
PowerPoint is the market-standard software package for dressing up fatuous ideas with profundity. In the grand scheme of western commerce, that means it is a very, very important application indeed. One uses it to generate “[[deck]]s” — animated presentations of “content”, arranged on “[[slide]]s” — which promise much and deliver nothing to powerless subordinates and guileless superiors. The very idea is to overawe or baffle an audience into believing you have something useful to add to the organisation. | PowerPoint is the market-standard software package for dressing up fatuous ideas with profundity. Among [[management consultants]] it is their sole means of communication with each other and the outside world. In the grand scheme of western commerce, that means it is a very, very important application indeed. One uses it to generate “[[deck]]s” — animated presentations of “content”, arranged on “[[slide]]s” — which promise much and deliver nothing to powerless subordinates and guileless superiors. The very idea is to overawe or baffle an audience into believing you have something useful to add to the organisation. | ||
[[PowerPoint]] can create pervasive collective delusions: in the hands of a gifted [[middle manager]], [[PowerPoint]] can turn base metal into fool’s gold. | [[PowerPoint]] can create pervasive collective delusions: in the hands of a gifted [[middle manager]], [[PowerPoint]] can turn base metal into fool’s gold. | ||