According to NYTimes, the reason why Columnia Orbiter was lost was because of Microsoft Power Point. Why? Because computer slide shows tend to have less information compared to hand written slides. Therefore, the audience may have made inferrence from a lack of data.
I am siding with the critics on this one. Perhaps the presenter does not know how to do PowerPoints? The idea behind PowerPoint is to provide an outline for your speech. It was not meant to present a lot of data. To me, this is a perk since you are more inclined to take in data presented in an orderly matter.
If the NASA presenter just reads off the PowerPoint, I would fire the person and hire someone with better presenting skills.
Posted by dreamnid at December 15, 2003 06:33 PM | TrackBack