“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.” ThinkingFirstsWellsMatterHelpingShowsEarthToolsOppositesTalesDataCorporateLiteracyPresentationEmergingMicrosoftVisualizationPowerpointCautionary Tales Book:Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
“As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.” PeopleWellsBookSocialActiveOnlineDocumentsOffline Book:Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
