In the beginning, there was just the story. Time has passed, and technology came in and provided tools to augment stories with visual and audio aids. Even more time has passed and the story became buried in technology. Today, the story is mostly forgotten and we’re left with technology.

I urge you to put back the story in your talk. Next time you start preparing your talk, do not prepare your slides, prepare your story and let the slides be just aids.

The talk is not your slides. The talk is your story.