![]() ![]() In Norvig’s hands, the near-biblical phrase-“ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”-becomes (what else?) a chart: So, he wondered, what if the Powerpoint had existed earlier in history? What if Lincoln, for example, had turned to the software in a time of utmost national need- what if, oh my gosh, what if Lincoln had delivered the Gettysburg address as a Powerpoint?Īnd so the stuff of Internet myth came to be. Sales pitches, mission statements, even (shudder) inspirational speeches: All had been processed and extruded by the harsh, homogenizing gizzard of Microsoft’s leviathan. Powerpoint presentations, he felt, ruled everything around him. his face.īut what if that wasn’t the case? Thirteen years ago, Peter Norvig, the current director of research at Google, suffered a dark night of the soul. Obama, Reagan, Kennedy: There’s something about the prestige of the president, of presiding, that demands he (or she) face the nation straight-on and honestly, with. ![]() ![]() When powerful, executive politicians speak, they often forgo visual aids. ![]()
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