You're 100% correct. PowerPoint just amplified the symptoms of what's wrong with presentations (corporate, academic or otherwise). People started to shift their

You're 100% correct. PowerPoint just amplified the symptoms of what's wrong with presentations (corporate, academic or otherwise). People started to shift their focus to things that didn't matter as much (the slide deck) and deviate from the content. These same problems will occur no matter what new presentation tools are invented and will continue to be the same annoyance. At the same time, products like the Screen.io are providing tools to facilitate good aspects of presentations and these are types of tools that should be built.