How many more of these will we have to watch?

There should be a law against the clip-art collection that's packaged with Office, or at least against its use in public presentations. Probably as much as 90% of the presentations I've seen at various meetings and congresses are populated by those quaint little silhouettes that may have been cute at one point in our experience as an audience, but have long ago run their course. To my dismay, most of the PowerPoint presentations I've viewed are interchangeable: if for some reason the first person on the panel were to use the presentation of the second person, I doubt that the audience would be able to tell the difference. These presentations, by the way, are called multi-media, apparently meaning that in addition to sitting and listening to someone talk, you get to watch the speech projected on a screen, along with the sound of a typewriter (if anyone still actually identifies that sound) clicking away while the words appear on the screen.


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