Curiously, while projection technology has been improving and maturing at an uprecedented pace, there has been a conspicuous lack of progress in the area of presentation graphics.
Today's projectors may be able to paint the walls of our cave with the most mesmerizing imagery in history, borne of the most dramatic engineering wizardry ever conceived, but today's presentation graphics look pretty much the same as they did five or 10 years ago. In that sense, nothing has changed; the mediocrity has just gotten easier to see.
So on we drift, getting better and better projectors, but shaming the technology by putting the same tired slides on the wall year after year. Call me a skeptic, but I do not believe that the apotheosis of 2,000 years of technical evolution is an electronic slide with five bullet points and a logo in the lower right-hand corner. There has to be something better--or at least there ought to be.
from Tad Simons, editor-in-chief of Presentations magazine
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