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Rediscovering PowerPoint classics: the Gettysburg presentation

November 30, 2008 · by Jan Schultink
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More weekend reading.

Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google. Back in 2000, being fed up with boring PowerPoint, he decided to use a famous speech by President Lincoln to demonstrate how a poorly designed PowerPoint translation could destroy its communication power completely. He put the creative “master piece” on his web site and more or less forgot about it.

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