PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.
I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
The entertainment is in the presentation.
Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.
We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.
Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.
PowerPoint makes us stupid.