反パワーポイント党の主張

この主張、私は全面的に賛同いたします。

実際、ホント嫌いなんですよ。パワーポイント作るのも、見せられるのも。

個人的には、自主的にパワーポイントを使う*1のは、画像を見せる「電気紙芝居」としてだけ、ほとんどそれだけです。

［オピニオン］反パワーポイント党
JULY 19, 2011 07:30

闘病中でやつれていても、スティーブ・ジョブスのカリスマは相変わらずだった。今年３月、米サンフランシスコで開かれたアップル社のタブレットＰＣ−ｉＰａｄ２の新製品の発表会。ジョブスは、ビジュアル中心の単純で強烈な画面を背景に、ユーモアと毒舌をまじえて核心メッセージを伝え、観衆をひきつけた。自然なように見えて、実はへとへとになるまで徹底的に練習するのがジョブズのプレゼンテーションの秘密だと、ビジネスウィーク誌は紹介した。

◆公務員らは、重要な報告の前には、パワーポイントの作成に必死だ。講義の準備よりパワーポイントの作成が大変だと教授は訴える。彼らのために、「反パワーポイント党（ＡＰＰＰ＝Anti PowerPoint Party）」が生まれた。スイスのソフトウェア・エンジニアで働き、スピーチ講師に転職したマティアス・ポエム氏が５月に結成した党で、パワーポイントのない世界を目指す。発表の度にパワーポイントが登場するため、聴衆は講師に集中できないだけでなく、事案を単純化し、実際には効果も大きくないということだ。このために浪費される金が世界的に年間３５００万ユーロだと、英フィナンシャル・タイムズが報じた。

◆「このパワーポイントをすべて理解すれば、私たちは戦争に勝てるだろう」。アフガニスタンに駐留するスタンレー・マクリスタル米軍司令官は、パワーポイントで軍事戦略の報告を受けていた時、このように言って周囲を笑わせたことがある。スパゲティの麺のような図表が見にくいだけではない。状況をすべて把握したという幻想を与え、批判的な思考と思慮深い決定を妨げるという批判も出ている。若くて賢明な将校がパワーポイントにかかりきりになることは浪費だという見方もある。０５年、イラク北東部の都市で成功的な軍事戦略を遂行したＨＲマクマスター将軍は、パワーポイントのプレゼンテーションを禁止したほどだ。

◆パワーポイントが報告と講義の効率を上げた点も無視することはできない。しかし、講義室で電気が消えてパワーポイントがつくことで、授業を「鑑賞」したり居眠りする学生が増えた。パワーポイントの内容はコンピュータに保存してあるので、集中して聴くこともない。公務員が発表した内容が十分でなくても、華やかなパワーポイントのおかげで上司に評価されたとしたら、それは公正であると言えるだろうか。韓国でも反パワーポイント運動が必要かも知れない。

金順徳（キム・スンドク）論説委員

http://japan.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=100000&biid=2011071948398

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 通常版 [パッケージ]

元になった記事はこれみたいですね。

July 17, 2011 8:27 pm
Anti-PowerPoint revolutionaries unite

By Lucy Kellaway

Last week I saw two women getting into a cab outside an office in central London. Both were in high heels and smart suits and were struggling with a flip chart, its pages flapping in the wind. The quaint sight of the large pad on aluminium legs filled me with longing for the days when people giving presentations wrote things down with felt pens on big sheets of paper.

I might have forgotten this scene, were it not for the fact that the very next day I was sent an invitation to join a brand new political party in Switzerland, the Anti PowerPoint party. “Finally do something!” its slogan says.

Actually I’ve been quietly doing something for years: I’ve been declining to learn how to use the ubiquitous piece of software. As a presenter, I’m a PowerPoint virgin, though as an audience member I’ve been gang raped by PowerPoint slides more times than I can count.

And what have I got from the experience? It is hard to say because my default reaction has been to blank it. I can’t remember one single slide that I’ve ever been shown. And as I must have been shown hundreds of thousands of them altogether, a hit rate of zero seems rather on the low side. This doesn’t mean I’ve never sat through a good PowerPoint presentation. But when I have, it has been because the person speaking managed to get a message across despite the distracting visual clamour going on behind them.

The Anti PowerPoint party has attempted to calculate the economic damage of gawping at all these slides and has concluded that Europe wastes €110bn a year from people sitting though dull presentations.

I suspect the true figure is even worse, as this ignores the secondary effects. PowerPoint must be the least enjoyable way of wasting time there is; a heavy slideshow can leave one feeling grumpy and passive and in no frame of mind for proper work.

Worse, it lowers the quality of discussion and leads to bad decisions. PowerPoint performs the miracle of making things simultaneously too simple and too complicated. It reduces subtle ideas to bullet points, while it encourages you to pad out a presentation with irrelevant data because cutting and pasting is far too easy.

The APPP is hoping to fight PowerPoint through peaceful means; it wants lots of journalists to write articles just like this one. Even if lots do, I hold out little hope of success. The seminal, devastating article on the subject, PowerPoint is Evil, was written by Edward Tufte in 2003 and published in Wired. And what has happened since then? Nothing, except that PowerPoint has gone on getting bigger.

Re-reading that article, I think Tufte was a bit soft on his target. He said PowerPoint presentations were “like a school play – very loud, very slow, and very simple”. In fact they are far worse than that: school plays tend to be amateurishly charming and there is generally someone on the stage who you love.

Persuading everyone to stop using PowerPoint is going to be much harder than persuading them, say, to reuse plastic bags or get the loft insulated. People cling to it for three powerful reasons. First, because everyone else does. Second, because it is much easier than writing a proper speech, where you have to think carefully about what you are saying ahead of time. Third, and most important, PowerPoint assuages speakers’ nerves – standing in a room with low lights, dumbly following prompts on a screen is not all that frightening.

To have any chance of success the APPP needs a terrorist faction, which would advocate cutting the wire in the middle of the table that connects the laptop to the projector. Or it could help people tamper with slides, inserting at random ones that said: “HERE IS ANOTHER DULL SLIDE” or showed a picture of people fast asleep.

Better still would be to campaign for an outright ban. In a world without the crutch of PowerPoint, presentations would be fewer in number – people would be put off by nerves and by the hard slog of preparation – and shorter. It might even mean that audiences listened. The human voice, especially when connected to a brain that has done some thinking, and a body that has done some rehearsing, can be a wonderful, memorable thing.

Ten days ago I went to a show in London called True Stories Told Live in which six people stood up and held forth without visual “aids”. The subjects weren’t promising – one spoke for 10 minutes about a cup of tea. But I can repeat his story to you now, which is much more than I could do about a PowerPoint presentation I saw the following day about women on boards, about which I remember only one thing: bone-crushing tedium.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/059e7092-af27-11e0-914e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Sd52eCFM

http://www.anti-powerpoint-party.com/

The PowerPoint Fallacy: Still Presenting or Already Fascinating?

*1:もちろん、銃を突きつけられてパワーポイントの使用を強要されれば、嫌々ながらでも使いますけどね。