PP

While reading The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint I found that the most interesting part was on the first page when the author includes the anecdote of the man turning off the projector in order to force the presenter to talk about his business without the crutch of his PowerPoint presentation. This reminded me of the artist Wynne Greenwood who would interact with multiple pre-recorded projections of herself. When she would choose to directly interact with the audience without having a dialog amongst her projections she would say "Hey, could you pause that for a second". She did this so that the viewer would have a chance to realize what reality was. The images would become so real to the person they would forget that every action between the artist and the projections had been predetermined and rehearsed. The pausing of the projections brought the audience back to the fact that she was presentation... not the projections. She was saying everything even though the projected characters were taking different stances in the discussions they had.... she we was the projections. I thought about that a lot.

I agree that the world has become overly time efficient with such things as faster internet, gadgets to make everything easier and shorthand.. I believe the author has the same opinion but then he goes on to use "PP" as an abbreviation of PowerPoint throughout the writing. He urges the reader to present facts in full statements but I feel most people who use PowerPoint as a tool do use full sentences as they speak on the topic. The slides are used as a visual example of the potential notes the audience may choose to jot down as they listen to the speaker. I see nothing wrong with that.