Schools and Throw-Away Kids

Time dollars and access to literacy.

The Joys of Powerpoint "It does help lay out thoughts in a coherent manner," he adds, "but it breeds a dependency the likes of which I've only seen in heroin users and Starbucks coffee drinkers. Has anyone seen Microsoft salespeople hanging around school yards yet?"

PowerPoint: What's wrong with it? , Sun Microsystems' president, Scott McNealy, announced in 1997 that PowerPoint was verboten for his 25,000 employees -- but, The New York Times dryly noted last April, "the ban was not enforced."

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