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Oh hey! This is exactly what Edward Tufte taught us at his course the other week. Now I'm curious as to who originated this practice...?
by pshc 13y ago
Oh hey! This is exactly what Edward Tufte taught us at his course the other week. Now I'm curious as to who originated this practice...?
- cma 13y agoDon't know how old this is, but it has been there a good many years: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/ http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
- jasoncrawford 13y agoYeah, I think this practice originated at Amazon not long after Edward Tufte's article “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint” was published. I think I heard that Bezos read that article and was influenced by it.
- xaritas 13y agoProbably true. The reason I was introduced to Tufte is when he was invited to give a talk at an Amazon Fishbowl (informal, internal lecture/music series). This had a strong stamp of Jeff-approval. I don't think that this particular practice was adopted immediately but Bezos plays a long game and this was probably an opening move.
- ics 13y agoI'll just bask in the irony of having my drawing professors presenting some of Tufte's work to a class full of architects... in PowerPoint.
- damoncali 13y agoSun Microsystems banned PowerPoint years ago. Not sure if they were the first, though.