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Type: Book excerpt / investigative exhibit
File Size: 1.2 MB
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
Ed Tufte Data Visualization Expert / Author
Served on the second shuttle disaster commission; author of 'The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint'.

Organizations (2)

Name Type Context
NASA
Subject of communication failure analysis regarding the shuttle disaster.
House Oversight Committee
Source of the document production (implied by footer stamp).

Timeline (1 events)

Post-2003 (Implied)
Second shuttle disaster commission investigation
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Relationships (1)

Ed Tufte Investigator/Analyst NASA
Ed Tufte served on the second shuttle disaster commission and provided an analysis of the disaster.

Key Quotes (3)

"All Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."
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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."
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"After all, we have evolved for 250,000 years to understand language, but only 25 to read PowerPoints."
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