The Big Whinge

BP (Before PowerPoint)

Does anyone remember life before the advent of PowerPoint?

Ahh, those were the days...

We wrote in sentences.

We did not need cute and largely irrelevant images from Gettyimages or flickr to hide the lack of content.

There were no cheesy sound effects or "ass-pirational" videos to bulk up a proposal. If it sucked, there was no Botox.

Hence, it's ironic that after years of refining written communication from when the Chinese carved messages on tortoiseshells in 8,600 BC to Gutenburg's modern printing press to where we are now - in an age when literacy is under threat.

We speak in acronyms and we text in shorthand. In the time it takes to decipher an abbreviated text message, it would have been faster to text it in full.

Are we heading back to pictographs?

In summary:

posted by Yarravillean @ 10:33 pm