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Book excerpt / investigative exhibit
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Summary
This document appears to be a page (page 63) from a book or essay included in a House Oversight Committee document production (likely related to a larger investigation). The text discusses the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, criticizing NASA's communication failures and the use of PowerPoint slides to convey complex information. It highlights the work of Ed Tufte, who served on the disaster commission and argued that simplification in presentations can be dangerous.
People (1)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Ed Tufte | Data Visualization Expert / Author |
Served on the second shuttle disaster commission; author of 'The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint'.
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Organizations (2)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| NASA |
Subject of communication failure analysis regarding the shuttle disaster.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Source of the document production (implied by footer stamp).
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Key Quotes (3)
"All Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."Source
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"The danger with slides is they force you to simplify information in a way that destroys the essence of the information."Source
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"After all, we have evolved for 250,000 years to understand language, but only 25 to read PowerPoints."Source
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