Powerpoint is a tool whose power comes in to being depending on the presentor. If the presentor has cogent thoughts and presents in a concise manner , then ppt is a wonderful tool that complements his task .

Alas! thats not the case usually. Pretty bad speakers/ presentors hide under the garb of technical gimmicks in the tool that the entire audience is awestruck by the techy stuff in the presentation OR bored by the whole stuff. Both result in the audience not getting the point.The most disgusting aspect of a poor presentation is when the speaker reads out the points from the slide and doesnt bother to explain the relevance of the point.

Sometimes out of dismay, I feel that there should be a rule that No speaker should ever utter a single word that is present in the ppt. Whatever he/she wishes to talk , vocabulory must not be the same as that of ppt. Atleast then we will know what’s the POV of the speaker.

Here’s Ricksegal proposing an extreme measure of doing away with powerpoints completely.