Larry Ellison's slide clicker failed during his Oracle OpenWorld keynote
Oracle
When the executive chairman took the stage Sunday night for the opening keynote of Oracle OpenWorld, he found himself struggling to keep his presentation slideshow aligned with where he was in his talk.
That's when Ellison told the audience his showbiz secret: Despite appearances, the presentation clicker doesn't actually control which slides are shown to the audience. It's just a way of communicating with the theater technician to get them to manually change the slides.
"All my button does is notify a human being. It's really not automation at all. It's fake automation. If it was real automation, that would not have happened," Ellison said.
To solve the problem, Ellison put down his clicker, and said "next slide" out loud whenever he needed the presentation changed.
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