The PowerPoint Singularity
The PowerPoint Singularity: How Society Collapsed Under the Weight of Slides In the brave new world of modern science, data no longer reigns supreme. The microscope has been replaced by the slide deck, the Petri dish by the bullet point. This is a society where the flickering glow of PowerPoint presentations is all it takes to proclaim groundbreaking discoveries. Gone are the tedious experiments, the soul-crushing peer reviews, and the dreary trudge through statistical significance. Instead, a well-timed fade transition or an elegantly crafted pie chart is all that is needed to rewrite the laws of the universe. The Rise of the PowerPoint Paradigm The pivot to PowerPoint began innocuously enough. Researchers, exhausted from the grind of grant applications and inconclusive results, realized that nobody read their papers anyway. What really mattered was the presentation . Could you captivate your audience with slick visuals, a catchy title, and a colorful metaphor that compared mitoc...
