The phrase used to described the
numbing sensation that accompanies a 30-slide
briefing. Behind all the
PowerPoint jokes are serious concerns that the program stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making.
"Last year when a military Web site, Company Command, asked an Army platoon leader in Iraq, Lt. Sam Nuxoll, how he spent most of his time, he responded, “Making
PowerPoint slides.” When pressed, he said he was serious."
"Despite such tales, “death by PowerPoint,” the phrase used to described the
numbing sensation that accompanies a 30-slide
briefing, seems here to stay. The program, which first went on sale in 1987 and was acquired by Microsoft soon afterward, is deeply embedded in a military culture that has come to rely on PowerPoint’s hierarchical ordering of a confused world."
"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint", Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times,
April 26, 2010
