Sense is often a lonely pursuit

Tufte is right on with his criticisms of Power Point. Power Point sucks. Unfourtunately, this week I had the inane task of producing a Power Point presentation in my art history class. Our project was basically to copy information from a packet the teacher handed out and then ramble insesantly about something we all could have just read. Power Point adds nothing to the learning experience and is only successful in putting everyone in the room to sleep. I'd much rather reading an essay than blankly staring into a projection. I couldn't agree more with Tufte, I'd say the two things that annoy me most about PP presentations are: the printed versions (why waste all that paper!), and the fact that; clearly, I can read what is on the slide, yet you feel the need to read aloud to me. So now, how do we eliminate Power Point? Shall we start from the top, eliminating Microsoft? Or should we begin an underground upheaval of the system? The most appropriate action would be a public demonstration, burning PP disks and reading essays over megaphones.