Lowell Deeds

In many fields, Microsoft’s PowerPoint has become the standard means of conveying information to an audience. While I find this application to be quite useful, it does have its critics. The biggest complaints are that it tends to “dumb down” the information presented. Each slide can hold only so much text, data or images and users tend to simply read what’s written on the slides as if its some kind of teleprompter that’s aimed at the audience. In doing this, many speakers tend to face the screen and place their backs to the crowd. As a means of poking fun at this phenomenon and of lodging a valid critique, someone has imaginged what the Gettysburg Address (delivered 143 years ago just this past Sunday) would be like in PowerPoint.