A few posts back, I said a few words about PowerPoint. Dr. Jerry Tarver, professor of speech communications emeritus at the University of Richmond, said it better, in fewer words and vastly more amusingly in the following limerick:

Learn the fate of a speaker named Clive,
Whose PowerPoint ate him alive.
His face was last seen
Fading into the screen,
Which entombed him in chart ninety-five.

Do you think that this warning will scare speakers away from PowerPoint? I doubt it, but one can always hope.