powerpoint slides

i disagree with the author that the slides make the 'work' less valuable, boring, and pointless. i in fact enjoy powerpoints. their easy to follow, and some contains pictures and sometimes audio to go along with the material, being a audio visual learner this helps me out. i like the fact that i can imagine what the data is interpreting for myself, and then comparing it with the pictures provided. he also spoke about how it brings on 'stupidity', i believe it depends on which catergory your speaking of because for me i find it quite exceptional that a young school age child can navigate a computer well enough to build slides and make their own presentations. their growing faster and faster and moving with new technology, some adults cant even keep up with it. in highschool everyone had to take a computer class, wekk it was an elective but it was still a graded course. theres still a few things i dont know about computers or how to use them but this goes to show that this makes no stupidity at all...it shows progress, just in a different way. i mean if hes (the author) going to put it like that then would it be true to say all technology dumbs us down, those like laptops, calculators, and probably even GPS systems as well.