Today's newspaper reading of two of my four daily newspapers (yeah I know I'm old fashioned, I still read print), yielded a couple of interesting references to PowerPoint.
The first one was a Hi & Lois Cartoon, where they are visiting with friends who say their projector has died and proceed to show a PowerPoint presentation of their recent visit to Disney World. I had to laugh at this one, since we do the same following trips when we want to share the many photos that we've taken. We've taken this one step beyond PowerPoint with one of my Christmas gifts this year, a digital frame with a capacity for 1000 photos. The problem so far is that the images aren't in any collection order and of course it doesn't have some of the managed transitions and interesting graphics that I can add with PowerPoint.
The other PowerPoint reference was more topical and damning in an editorial "Road to Nowhere" by David Brooks in today's New York Times, where he criticizes Mitt Romney's campaign strategy with the following:
"And yet as any true conservative can tell you, the sort of rational planning Mitt Romney embodies never works. The world is too complicated and human reason is too limited. The PowerPoint mentality always fails to anticipate something. It always yields unintended consequences."
For the political junkies among you this editorial is an interesting analysis of why Romney can't win in the general election.
