can some plz help me on this subject and get back to me on
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I just reread Langdon Winner's chapter "Do Artifacts Have Politics" from the
book The Whale and the Reactor (and reprinted in The Social Shaping of
Technology). The premise is that some technological artifacts by the way we
make and use them have political implications and others, by there very
nature, are only compatible with certain political structures. I know that
if had time, I could find a way to link the use of PowerPoint to political
structures that either promote or inhibit the use of guns, but I'm not sure
which. My first pass is that PowerPoint is an authoritarian tool that is
incompatible with a political structure built on freedom and thus promotes a
political structure that puts control of guns in the hands of the State and
not ordinary citizens. However, if we start from the premise that PowerPoint
is an empowering tool that frees us from the shackles of oppressive
governments, we might come to a different solution. Either that or this
question is totally unrelated to PowerPoint and doesn't belong in this
newsgroup.
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
