Technological advancements

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

Sometimes it takes a little while to realise something is actually really stupid.

Take this for example:

“Chalk one up for teachers. What better way to present educational materials than with a template that evokes the classic image of the teaching profession?”

It’s an KeyNote theme. KeyNote is a tool for creating presentations for the Mac. The theme can be applied to your presentation to give it a “blackboard & Chalk” look. How nice.

The following high-tech state-of-the-art equipment is used to create a presentation:

• Laptops/Desktop PC’s which can proces bilions of instructions per second
• Fancy Operating Systems with swooshy thingies
• Highly user-friendly software tools which took many programmers many hours to create
• Expensive Beamers and screens

And that presentation looks exactelly like something that cavemen drew on the walls of caves some 10.000 years ago? Something that could just as easily be done on a real blackboard and some chalk. Only difference is that instead of having to whipe out the chalk and drawing/writing the next diagram/text, we can now click the button of a mouse. Whooptiedoo.

Really, with all our super-duper high-tech stuff like planes, trains and automobiles.. computers and what not.. we’re still just advanced cavemen. Craving for status, power and procrastination. Makes you kind of sad, doesn’t it?