Activity

    How Effective Are the Visual Aids in Bill Gates's Comdex Keynote Address?

    On November 19, 1996, Microsoft's Bill Gates presented the keynote address entitled "Information at Your Fingertips: The Challenge for the PC Industry" at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. The purpose of this exercise is to evaluate how effective Gates's visual aids were.
    1. In your view how effective was the speech?
    2. Did the visual aids that Gates incorporated into his presentation enhance its effectiveness or create a distraction?
    You can also read a copy of the speech and view the PowerPoint slides that Gates used in the speech.

    An alternate site for reading a copy of the speech is at the Bill Gates home page.

    Or, you can watch a streaming video version of the speech with still images of the presentation.