[woopwoop]

I like the idea that various communications media have implicit social contracts that can be broken. In my opinion, power point presentations break an implicit social contract that is held in handwritten talks: if it's worth you displaying a piece of information, so that I the listener feel the need to take it in or even copy it down, it has to be worth your time to actually physically write it on the board. With power point talks this is not honored, and the average power point talk is much, much worse than the average chalk talk. I bet there are lots of other examples.

[smithza]

Go thee to the land of government contracting and see thou how well thine ideas hold up.

[woopwoop]

I actually have worked in this space and it, uh, has not shaken my belief that powerpoint talks are bad.

[account42]

Well the thing with powerpoint presentations is that the listener doesn't have to write them down and can instead use the copy you share with them if they need a future reference.

And it should still be worth for them to listen if you don't suck at presenting and don't just read the text from the slides.