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http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html

• mseebach 17y ago
  On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people see that presentation every year. Lincoln had a crowd of just 15.000 at Gettyburg. Surely, PowerPoint is a superior medium by many orders of magnitude.
  • RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
    > On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people > see that presentation every year. Are you sure? It seems to me to say that from 2000 to 2006 a total of 1.5 million saw it, not 1.5m/year. If I'm wrong please let me know ...
    • mseebach 17y ago
      Yeah, you're right, it's accumulative. But it doesn't change the fact that the PowerPoint version obviously have a significantly larger impact than old dudes speech. He didn't even use a microphone, go figure.
      • thingie 17y ago
        Depends. Makes 1.5 million of random internet visitors more impact than 15 thousand of quite enthusiastic listeners? Well. I don't think so :o)
  • julius_geezer 17y ago
    A bit like an old chestnut I remember: the woman says that her son is smarter than Lincoln: the boy could recite the Gettysburg address at age 8, while it took Lincoln until he was over 40.