Projecting the future of overhead projection

Abstract

The future of presentation technology is discussed, concentrating on needed hardware and software breakthroughs to bring about such innovations as practical animation. Conjectures are made as to how tomorrow's audio-visual aids might be best applied to educating tomorrow's post-MTV preliterate students. It is concluded that the overhead projector and projection pad already provide a very inexpensive and portable alternative to the large-screen monochrome video monitor, and soon will have affordable color capabilities. There is a long list of advantages to using the projection pad over conventional transparencies, and lower cost will soon be added to the list. Potential solutions exist for the technical problems of slow speed, and heat intolerance. Current presentation software has extensive word-processing features, and should be more powerful and less expensive in the future.<>