[net-gold] PowerPoint Makes Us Stupid: Marine Corps Gen James N. Mattis
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:57:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:00:54 -0600 (MDT)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] PowerPoint Makes Us Stupid: Marine Corps Gen James N.
Mattis
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PowerPoint Makes Us Stupid:
Marine Corps Gen James N. Mattis
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
<http://ow.ly/1DFvp>
?PowerPoint makes us stupid?
Marine Corps Gen James N. Mattis
[excerpt]
WASHINGTON ? Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal,
the leader of American and NATO forces
in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint
slide in Kabul last summer that was meant
to portray the complexity of American
military strategy, but looked more like
a bowl of spaghetti.
?When we understand that slide, we?ll
have won the war,? General McChrystal
dryly remarked, one of his advisers
recalled, as the room erupted in
laughter.
The slide has since bounced around the
Internet as an example of a military tool
that has spun out of control. Like an
insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into
the daily lives of military commanders
and reached the level of near obsession.
The amount of time expended on PowerPoint,
the Microsoft presentation program of
computer-generated charts, graphs and
bullet points, has made it a running joke
in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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