Tufte Brilliance- My thoughts on a paper

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within by Edward R. Tufte was basically about how PowerPoint is a senseless, pointless program that dumbs its audience. In particular, Tufte laments about the use of “slide-by-slide” and “line-by-line”: a slide will reveal itself, and then line by line show the information being presented in an altogether tedious and painful fashion. As a useful alternative, Tufte suggests passing around printed-out material, which “allows [the audience] to control the order and pace of learning.” Essentially, Tufte says that the human brain can handle the information that is being presented, and it is unnecessary to break information down to “bite-sized chunks” (Tufte 6).