The Cognative Style of Powerpoint (Kimberly)

Was it just me or is Tufte saying Powerpoint is Communist?

1. Is the responsibilty of the loss of information soley on the system Powerpoint or is the responsibily on the presenter (user) lack of being able to use it?

2. I understand the importance of documents and the written word and how it can translate information better than PP; however, aren't the purpose of presentations to provide the concised version of the information on the written documnet? Isn't the system Powerpoint just one of tool to help get the point across?

I agree that Powerpoint can't be the only source in which an information is given ( like in the case of the NASA presentation) but I don't see why it should be discarded in presenting "serious matters".

The Cognative Style of Powerpoint

There was not a lot that i didn't understand about this reading - except for the fact that the whole time, i thought that the objective of the book was to describe how much more effective powerpoints were, whew - but my two questions are:

1. What was the pitch style that they were describing on page 11 durring the topic of the unnessary outline?

2.They lost me on p 16-17: "Identifying specific agents of action may also eventually assist forensic accountants and prosecutors in targetting those responsiblr for excessively accelerated recognition of revenue." -they lost me right here i have no clue what that sentance says or means... i think its just too verbose maybe, iono.