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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

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210 points scapecast | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 21:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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bigstrat2003 ◴[29 Aug 25 01:47 UTC] No.45059108[source]▶
I don't see how this has anything to do with PowerPoint. There wasn't clear communication; the medium was completely incidental to that. They could have been writing on a chalkboard and had a communication failure, does that mean that chalkboards should be blamed in that case?
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1. lupusreal ◴[29 Aug 25 09:27 UTC] No.45061971[source]▶
The medium is the message.

PowerPoint gets used because it requires less effort from the audience. They sit back and zone out like couch potatoes. Scrap the PowerPoint and throw the technical report at the managers. Any of them who complain or otherwise don't read it are incompetent and should be fired on the spot.