Issue 3

After reading Bumiller’s article, I believe her assertions are valid. While powerpoint is an effective tool in presenting information in a school or business setting for its ease of use and understandability, I don’t believe it should be used in the military. Powerpoint has the ability to make people feel like they understand the point at hand when, in reality, they don’t have a clue what is going on. Powerpoint can dumb things down and detract from the real meaning of what’s going on. The only disagreement with Bumiller is that powerpoint is not the reason for all of the issues in the military. There are problems in the military that have nothing to do with a piece of technology, like Powerpoint. In order to have a more audience centered approach when developing powerpoint is to make the slides easy to read, concise, and provide only the necessary information.