Lousy PowerPoint presentations: The fault of PP users?

August 21, 2006  |  Edward Tufte
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The common defense of bad PowerPoint presentations is that they are the “fault of the user, not the tool.”

This point raised by PP advocates in fact provokes a rich and complex question about nearly any type of expressive performance: What are the causes of presentations?

Here are excerpts on these matters from my essay on PowerPoint:

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