Paul Yanchek

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It’s a striking fact that at least a third of TED’s most viewed talks make no use of slides whatsoever. How can that be? Surely a talk plus images is always going to be more interesting than just a talk? Well no, actually. Slides move at least a little bit of attention away from the speaker and onto the screen. If the whole power of a talk is in the personal connection between speaker and audience, slides may actually get in the way of that.
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
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