Voici un article bien rigolo sur l’utilisation apparemment abusive que fait l’armée américaine du célèbre logiciel PowerPoint.
Si l’on en croit cette diapo « déclassifiée », il y a en effet des progrès à faire pour gagner la guerre:
(pas de panique, dans l’article du NYT vous trouverez un agrandissement!)
Quelques morceaux choisis:
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When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,General McChrystal dryly remarked (au sujet de cette fameuse diapo).
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“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
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Last year when a military Web site, Company Command, asked an Army platoon leader in Iraq, Lt. Sam Nuxoll, how he spent most of his time, he responded, “Making PowerPoint slides.” When pressed, he said he was serious.
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Those types of PowerPoint presentations, Dr. Hammes said, are known as “hypnotizing chickens.”
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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint. By Elisabeth Bumiller. The New York Times. Published: April 26, 2010