The editor Clay Chandler interviews Robert
Gaskins, the inventor of PowerPoint
Bento: Thank you for talking to us! Your
invention of PowerPoint has made you quite
the tech celeb. Tell us about how you came up
with the idea for PowerPoint! What were your
goals?
Gaskins: PowerPoint was created to disrupt
and enlarge an already thriving industry:
business presentations. It aimed to put
control of presentations into the hands
of presenters to help them express their
own ideas. This was no small thing. Before
personal computers, presenters worked
through secretaries, graphics producers, or
technical specialists to build presentations.
All these intermediaries blurred the message
and introduced delays that made it impractical
to get everything right,
When we began Power Point in early 1984,
we knew what the program should do. The
innovation of PowerPoint was to notice that
presenting was a common and valuable task
that could be made much easier, quicker.
and better by using the graphics of Mac and
Windows. PowerPoint sought to disrupt an
established business model, much like Uber
is doing now to licensed taxis. We offered a
superior replacement for a familiar capability,
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dreamed-of-powerpoint
3. Who is Robert Gaskins?
A. The editor of a magazine.
B. The inventor of PowerPoint.
C. The inventor of computer.
D An innovator of technology,
E. A technical specialist.
4. What have PowerPoint done to Robert
Gaskins?
A. It has made him a tech celeb.
B. It has delayed his career.
C. It has made him become a presenter.
D. It has made him join a computer
company.
E. It has encouraged him build a business
model
5 The following are the uses of PowerPoint,
except ...
A to make our task much easier
B. to make our valuable task quicker
C to help presenters do their job
D. to make our task better using the
graphics
E to help transportation avoid traffic jam
Gaskins, the inventor of PowerPoint
Bento: Thank you for talking to us! Your
invention of PowerPoint has made you quite
the tech celeb. Tell us about how you came up
with the idea for PowerPoint! What were your
goals?
Gaskins: PowerPoint was created to disrupt
and enlarge an already thriving industry:
business presentations. It aimed to put
control of presentations into the hands
of presenters to help them express their
own ideas. This was no small thing. Before
personal computers, presenters worked
through secretaries, graphics producers, or
technical specialists to build presentations.
All these intermediaries blurred the message
and introduced delays that made it impractical
to get everything right,
When we began Power Point in early 1984,
we knew what the program should do. The
innovation of PowerPoint was to notice that
presenting was a common and valuable task
that could be made much easier, quicker.
and better by using the graphics of Mac and
Windows. PowerPoint sought to disrupt an
established business model, much like Uber
is doing now to licensed taxis. We offered a
superior replacement for a familiar capability,
Taken from: http://bento hult edu/the-man-who-
dreamed-of-powerpoint
3. Who is Robert Gaskins?
A. The editor of a magazine.
B. The inventor of PowerPoint.
C. The inventor of computer.
D An innovator of technology,
E. A technical specialist.
4. What have PowerPoint done to Robert
Gaskins?
A. It has made him a tech celeb.
B. It has delayed his career.
C. It has made him become a presenter.
D. It has made him join a computer
company.
E. It has encouraged him build a business
model
5 The following are the uses of PowerPoint,
except ...
A to make our task much easier
B. to make our valuable task quicker
C to help presenters do their job
D. to make our task better using the
graphics
E to help transportation avoid traffic jam
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3. B. The inventor of PowerPoint
4. A. It had made him a tech celeb
5. E To help transportation avoid traffic jam