A projector slides off into the sunset: It’s a travesty — the slide projector is history.
“Video killed the radio star, as the song goes, and now it has claimed another victim: the humble slide projector. […] With zero fanfare, Eastman Kodak Co., the principal US manufacturer of slide projectors, has told its important customers that it will cease production of its once-popular lines in June 2004.”
I guess we don’t need it now that we have PowerPoint.
Boob Tubes Going Digital By 2007: First the slide projector, and now the analog TV — it's been a bad week for old technology. "The transition to digital TV, which was designed to be mostly completed by 2007, has been slowed in part by high-priced equipment needed to receive the higher…
The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide: This is a short but interesting piece on the "damage" that PowerPoint has done to discourse and presentation skills in the last ten years. "Once upon a time, a party host could send dread through the room by saying, 'Let me show you the…