Apparently a Swiss political party has formed to ban PowerPoint. How will Cern (which is in Geneva) cope?
As is well - and musically - documented, far too much of our time is spent in a meeting. Usually watching presentations. So I have an instinctive sympathy with the Swiss malcontents who want to ban PowerPoint.
However, I think they would have to make some exemptions. Our talks are mostly not the bullet-ridden corporate tedium I suspect gets them really mad. We tend to have equations, and lots and lots of plots (not pie charts).
Maybe we'll have to hold all our meetings in the Pr�vessin site of Cern, which is just over the border in France? I doubt international organisations could get a blanket exemption, since this would leave the WTO, UN and WHO, for example, all still suffering death by PowerPoint, which surely can't be right.
Actually, we will probably be ok, since real physicists do it in LaTeX.
PS Having read this, Pippa Wells drew this outstanding example of PowerPoint use in science to my attention:
I thought I ought to share.
Carol Grow Erika Christensen Emilie de Ravin Tara Reed Avril Lavigne
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