瑞士某政党提议禁用PowerPoint

瑞士一个名为“反PPT”的政党提议各类机构在开会或者做演讲时禁用PowerPoint软件，称其枯燥乏味，且易疏离人群。

POWERPOINT, your cruel reign¹（统治，支配） is over. You're too boring - even for Switzerland.

A Swiss political party, the Anti-PowerPoint movement, wants to ban the presentation software for the good of man kind.

According to the party's founder², Matthias Poehm, PowerPoint teaches people very little and actually alienates³（疏远，离间） audiences from the presentation.

"The fact is that the average PowerPoint presentation creates boredom," he says on his website.

Mr Poehm believes too many workplaces rely on PowerPoint presentations instead of talking to their employees.

"Companies, conferences, schools, universities should no longer have to justify⁴ using PowerPoint," he says.

Mr Poehm estimates that Switzerland could save up to 350 billion euros ($479 billion) a year by banishing⁵ the software and going retro.

Flip⁶ charts – a whiteboard with a pad and paper fixed⁷ to it – are "not only much more emotional, but also much more pleasant and more interesting to watch", he says.

The Anti-PowerPoint Party needs 10,000 petition signatures in order to run candidates in the next election. So far only 300 people have signed up to the cause.

So it seems that, for the time being, Switzerland will remain PowerPoint-neutral.