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Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint

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The Future of Business Presentations

There's a thing called absolute power point by ean parker. It's like a super old web sight floating around. whitfield diffy was researching the security of telephone systems in 19 81, preparing to give a presentation with 35 millimeter slides. He wrote a little programme that allowed you to draw a black frame on a piece of paper. With a few days of effort diffy had pointed the way to power point. And it was incredibly at bell northern research, sort of coming up with this concept of maybe softwor can help us do this thing that, you know, we have to do manually right now. That's the germ of the idea, right there.

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