power point is evil

I strongly agree with Tufte's argument. I always thought of Power Point as being an easy way out of any assignment. All you have to do is put a couple bullets on each slide and then you've got yourself and A.Most of the time when I was required to make a power point, half of my grade was based on how pretty it looked. So most of the time I spent on making it look nice and filled with color instead of the information that went into it. I liked the way he ended his article with "the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience". I don't think that using power point is a respectful way to speak to people, it's just much easier. Using a power point is very impersonal, especially if your audience is reading it themselves. Plus it's a big pain the butt when you have to sit through a presentation that consists of 10 slides all with 1 or 2 bullets on them, so once it's finally over you still don't know what the heck the presentation was about. I think they're a good way of putting half the effort into something but technically you've completed what you are supposed to. So I think Tufte is completely right about Power Points, they were a stupid idea and they give not only kids, but other people who take advantage of them, an easy way out.