The document proposes establishing a global Powerpoint Authority to regulate the quality of Powerpoint presentations. It argues that most people create slides without training, resulting in presentations communicating information badly. The Authority would make regular reviews of individual presentations, punish those with bad layouts and unclear logic, and require a "driver's license" proving presentation skills. It claims inferior slides have become a menace, psychologically torturing audiences, and the Authority should have power to revoke licenses and seize assets of bad presenters.
2. Introduction
Powerpoint is very easy to use
Powerpoint is often chosen to
communicate business suggestions and
decisions
There are plenty of nice templates
3. Introduction
Most people who create powerpoint presentations
do not need any training to produce their first
presentation
Most people will continue to produce slides without
training
The result is a multitude of presentations
communicating valuable information to important
people in a bad way
5. The Powerpoint Authority
The UN should form a Powerpoint
Authority with global reach
The Powerpoint Authority should make
regular controls of performance and
quality on individual basis
Presentations with bad layout and unclear
logic should lead to severe punishments
6. Powerpoint drivers license
Making Powerpoint presentations should
require a ”drivers license”
Proven knowledge of presentation
teqniques
Several work samples showing
presentation skills
7. Victims
Inferior Powerpoint presentations have
grown to be a global menace
Forcing people to watch bad Powerpoint
presentations is comparable to low intense
psycological torture
The victims are countless but – until now -
voiceless
8. Punishment
The Powerpoint Authority should have the
right to revoke the Powerpoint drivers
license.
The Powerpoint Authority should further
have the right to seize and destroy all
tools that has been – or can be used to
produce Powerpoint slides. Including
computers, vehicles, real-estate property
and financial assets of any form.