I certainly won't say that there's no place for PowerPoint or similar slide-style presentation tools, but I think that they are greatly abused. In many cases,

I certainly won't say that there's no place for PowerPoint or similar slide-style presentation tools, but I think that they are greatly abused. In many cases, a point paper would be a more effective way to communicate information. Unfortunately, point papers generally require the recipients to actually think, and PowerPoints generally don't. I don't actually mean that snarkily — in a lot of cases it doesn't actually immediately matter if those receiving information via PowerPoint actually understand it. It's more of a business ritual than an actual value-creating activity.