Dissecting “The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003” (Episode #179)

Dissecting “The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003” (Episode #179)

The recently released article in The Atlantic, “The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003” is the basis for a great conversation on e179 of The Presentation Podcast. Troy Chollar, Nolan Haims, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, and I discuss how presentation design has evolved, and comment on “PowerPoint- was-going-to-be-the-end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it mentality. The article starts with “20 years later, the great PowerPoint panic reads as both a farce and a tragedy.” How could we not have a conversation about this; and look back at Edward Tufte’s infamous pamphlet, “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.”