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> PowerPoint has saved people a huge amount of work. Probably not. The fact that making presentations got easier just caused many more (often unnecessary) pres
by steve1977 3y ago
> PowerPoint has saved people a huge amount of work.
Probably not. The fact that making presentations got easier just caused many more (often unnecessary) presentations in my experience.
So at the end of the day, people spend the same amount of work without getting more results.
- ghaff 3y agoGoing back many many decades my experience is that people were at least almost as bad about reading documents as they are today. The fact that people used overhead projectors and transparencies didn't change the fact that I spent a great deal of my time in meetings with slides.
- hotnfresh 3y agoRight. People didn’t assemble a presentation deck back then, just to mail it to someone for them to look at on their own. It’s also taken the place of the business letter and some other formerly-common office document formats. I’m not convinced it’s saving time, just creating more junk. Which is how I feel about a lot of application of tech, actually—I suspect huge productivity gains in some narrow cases mask that most tech use is somewhere between a lot worse and only slightly better than whatever it replaced.