A book with a promising premise falls victim to the complaints it is making against PowerPoint. In short, sloppy reasoning, failure to submit appropriate evidence and build an argument. There is little to no actual research presented, only anecdotes, and those don't show PowerPoint making us stupid, only mostly making us lazy. And he fails to establish causation; the possibility that the dumbing down of our society may be a cause of the overuse of PowerPoint rather than caused by it is not explored. There are so many candidates for what is wrong with our critical thinking skills that indicting any one thing, especially a popular software program, requires substantial evidence. adequate evidence, or at least one piece of evidence...something. The writing is dull, the organization jumpy and not logical, and I don't recommend this book. Some occasionally interesting stories got it the rating; they are not enough to spend several days on this book.… (más)
Some interesting observations and insights but the book does not to live up to the provocative title nor is the author all that persuasive. At least it was a quick, relatively short read.
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