25 Years Old It's hard to believe that PowerPoint has now been with us for 25 years. I remember when I was first introduced to PowerPoint. I was working for KPMG and one of my colleagues introduced me to the program. It was fascinating. The idea of being able to present information in a piecemeal fashion so that, layer by layer, greater understanding was achieved was powerful. I think the main difference between then and now was back then, our ideas were already crystallized before we turned to PowerPoint. It was a matter of taking the crystallized ideas and reflecting them in the presentation tool. Today, I think it's a different story. I think many presentations are actually developed using PowerPoint. The result is a very dense presentation as every thought is reflected in either a slide or a bullet point. I think this is unfortunate. Most people instinctively flinch when presentations begin because they suspect they are going to be subjected to 50 slides with way too much text and a presenter that does little more than read from the slides.

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