Powerpoint has been developed by Robert Gaskins (ForeThought, a company that has been bought later by Microsoft.

• The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Graphics Press, 2003, 2006 (2nd edition) Very critical view of powerpoint and its derivatives; explains it's role in the accident of the space shuttle Columbia See also http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
• Gaskins, Robert. 2007. ‘PowerPoint at 20: Back to Basics’. Commun. ACM 50(12): 15–17.
The author of PowerPoint. His not entirely happy when looking back at 20 years of development.
• Pöhm, Matthias. 2011. Der Irrtum PowerPoint: Präsentieren Sie noch oder faszinieren Sie schon? 1st ed. Pöhm Seminarfactory.
• Frommer, Franck. 2012. How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have Taken Over Our Thinking. (G. Holoch, Trans.). New York: The New Press.
• Frommer, Franck. 2012. La pensée PowerPoint. Paris: Pocket.
Beretti, Nicolas. 2012. Stop au PowerPoint?! Réapprenez à penser et à présenter. Paris: Dunod. >

There has been quite some discussion around the use of Powerpoint in academia, business and armed forces (US, see articles below)

• Clive Thompson. PowerPoint Makes You Dumb. New York Times 14.12.2003
• Andrew Smith. How PowerPoint is killing critical thought The Guardian 23.9.2015
• PowerPoint nous rend-il stupide? L'Express
• The Problem with Powerpoint BBC 19.8.2009
• Bumiller, Elisabeth (April 26, 2010). "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint". The New York Times 26.4.2010
• Evans, Michael. Afghanistan: the battle for hearts and bullet points. The Times 28.4.2010
• T.X. Hammes. Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets Armed Forces Journal 1.7.2009 Blog entry on this by Crispin Burke Small Wars Journal
• The PowerPoint rant that got a colonel fired. ArmyTimes 2.9.2010

• Robert Gaskins (home page). Original Powerpoint proposal [PDF]
• http://www.anti-powerpoint-party.com/