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名詞

death by PowerPoint (usually uncountable, plural deaths by PowerPoint)

1. (informal, idiomatic, education, communication) The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.

   Near-synonym: PowerPointlessness

   • 2000, David Greenberg, Avoiding Death by PowerPoint, 45 Proven Strategies to Breathe Life Into Dull Presentations, Goldleaf Publications, →ISBN, illustrated.
   • 2000, Dave Meier, The Accelerated Learning Handbook, A Creative Guide to Designing and Delivering Faster, More Effective Training Programs, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, illustrated, page 180:

     In corporations, death by overhead has been replaced by death by PowerPoint. Nothing has changed but the technology.

   • 2007, Rob Waite, “Real-World Story No. 18”, in The Lost Art of General Management, robwaite.com inc., →ISBN, page 74:

     We’ve all endured them ... PowerPoint presentations that drone on forever. I call this “Death by PowerPoint.”
     One of my near-death-by-PowerPoint experiences occurred in Newfoundland, Canada.

   • 2008, Mary Civiello and Arlene Matthews, Communication Counts, Business Presentations for Busy People, Safari Books Online, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, illustrated, page 132:

     And, as audience members, we have all experienced death by PowerPoint, the comatose state that results from being subjected to one stultifying slide after another.

   • 2010, Jo Owen, The Death of Modern Management, How to Lead in the New World Disorder, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, illustrated, chapter 9, unpaged:

     Where a 10-page presentation with one or two charts would have been acceptable before, now we all suffer from death by PowerPoint.