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At a time in history when Powerpoint is both ubiquitous and widely despised, when students in classrooms pay increasingly little attention to the education they're paying for because Facebook is more interesting - is there no hope for public communication any more? The internet is so much more interesting than anything that almost anyone has to say these days.

Believe it or not, here comes geekery to the rescue. The same people building the attention-absorbing internet are experimenting with new methods to make public communication engaging again. Below are some of our favorite ways it's happening.