For the PowerPoint article I wrote for Wired I interviewed John Underkoffler of Oblong. He tends to be known as the Minority Report guy. I was interested in the parallels between his product Mezzanine and what the Eames's built for the World Fair:
They were both about multiple screens, multimedia, a room dedicated to presentation.
No one else was interested though and I couldn't get it into the article or into my book. I've kept collecting that stuff though.
My absolute favourite is the Dupont Company chart room.
"Oh no," you might complain after reading this list, "making good PowerPoint is complex."
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) August 28, 2020
May I introduce you to the world before PowerPoint, the DuPont Chart Room, where you would be be given a presentation among grinding gears as slides whizzed towards you on a monorail system pic.twitter.com/a27eIEQbdt
But let's also give it up for the knowledge box
Um. 'Inside the knowledge box, alone and quiet, the student would see a rapid procession of thoughts and ideas projected on walls, ceilings and floor in a panoply of pictures, words and light patterns, leaving the mid to conclude for itself.' https://t.co/E8z9j9b2lq pic.twitter.com/PynZvuNRqp
— Justin Pickard (@jcalpickard) August 29, 2022