"Antipowapo political party" to rebel against Microsoft's PowerPoint

ByLeobard

Although it is indispensable for making presentation material done in the field of business, it is Microsoft's "PowerPoint", but whatever you make it will be a finish with "everything made with powerpo", so honestly There are also many people who do not want it.

In order to express complaints about such "PowerPoint" from a political standpoint, "Antipowapo Party" was established in Switzerland.

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The official name of "Anti-powerpo party" is "Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP)". According to their argument, PowerPoint is widely used at business sites, giving the Swiss economy a loss of 2.1 billion Swiss francs each year (about 202.6 billion yen), and if you expand your horizons across Europe, presentations The existence of the software is said to cause an economic loss of 160 billion dollars (about 12 trillion yen).

The above-mentioned content that APPP asserts is based on the assumption that "people who work for a company always participate in a presentation every week and 85% of the participants have not found a purpose consciousness in the content" It is calculated on the basis, and data which becomes the basis is not presented in particular.

The unique point of the Swiss democratic system is that citizens can recruit referendums. It is conditional to collect signatures of more than 10000 people, but any theme that invites voting is OK.

APPP has adopted a referendum using the above system and requests support in every direction to fulfill the final goal of "prohibiting the use of PowerPoint and other presentation software throughout Switzerland". Also, APPP plans to hold candidates for the general election to be held in October, etc. It seems that APPP is actively involved in politics in order to eradicate PowerPoint.

The official website is capable of displaying in Switzerland the official languages ​​German, French, Italian and other languages ​​such as English, Spanish, Russian, Croatian, Slovak and so on, and against the world over PowerPoint I understand that I am trying to convey my will. Matthias Poehm, the founder of the political party and the present top, says, "Volunteers who were responsible for translating Croatian are recruiting volunteers who translate our website into other languages." I'm showing a desire to continue to increase the corresponding languages, such as commenting.

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In 2003, Edward Tufte, a specialist who is good at visualizing numerical data, announced the essay "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" that wrote the claim that PowerPoint reduced people's thinking abilities. Also in 2010 the New York Times wrote in the article that "Our enemies are PowerPoints" in front of presentation materials that the US military has not been able to fully understand, such as writing in the article, in addition to this party, the existence of PowerPoint is painful There may be not a few people who think very much.

APPP, which was established on May 5, 2011, currently has 245 members, but it is too small to participate in the political situation. Party members are obliged to purchase the book "The PowerPoint Fallacy" in which Mr. Tufte's manifest of the party is written, but it seems that they can buy it cheaper than the market price.

Tufte seems to use a political party to just sell the book, he himself also replies "To be sure there are such purposes" to the question by e-mail himself, but he It is said that there is more significance in the establishment of this party.

"What we are aiming at is not to destroy PowerPoint, many people want to break down the current situation that we do not know anything other than PowerPoint as a means of presentation," Tufte comments.

Although the Microsoft side was inquired about the existence and plan of APPP, it means that it passed the no comment.