PowerPoint Makes You Dumb

PowerPoint is the world's most popular tool for presenting information. There are 400 million copies in circulation, and almost no corporate decision takes place without it. But what if PowerPoint is actually making us stupider?

Thompson, Clive. New York Times, The (2003). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy

A description of Andrea Lunsford's argument, from research with the Stanford Study of Writing, that technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.

Thompson, Clive. Wired (2009). Articles>Writing>Social Networking