the challenger "slides" are in one of the tufte books. these are hand written slides that have all of the right information, displayed in a way that does not impart the point - that there is in the engineer's minds, a possible saftey issue.
i'm sure that they thought they were making a point, otherwise they would not have went through the trouble of making slides. the problem was, they were unable to communicate what they thought and why... and their slides were not made in powerpoint.
i agree, the evil empire is not entirely to blame.
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the challenger "slides" are in one of the tufte books. these are hand written slides that have all of the right information, displayed in a way that does not impart the point - that there is in the engineer's minds, a possible saftey issue. i'm sure that they thought they were making a point, otherwise they would not have went through the trouble of making slides. the problem was, they were unable to communicate what they thought and why... and their slides were not made in powerpoint. i agree, the evil empire is not entirely to blame.