PowerPoint is Evil

Tufte's criticisms of PowerPoint were cutting and got straight to the point. He did not try to hide his complete contempt for PowerPoint and its ability to turn a simple presentation into a cheap, unnecessarily confusing mess on some slides. I definitely understand where he is coming from and I even agree to some degree with the majority of what he said. I also feel like PowerPoint is too, too structured for what it should have been intended to do which is to easily inform an audience instead of its actual purpose, to make it easier for the presenter. PowerPoint allows little content and fun animations take greater importance in creating such presentations. This is perfectly fine, I think, when in a business meeting the point of the pitch is to give as little information as possible because most business men and women do not want to hear pages upon pages of logistics even though it may be the more beneficial route. As people, we don't like doing more work then we have to especially when it is something we dislike but at the same time, we don't like our time being watsed by someone reading slides with little to no useful information about the topic in question.