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Archive for October, 2011
Steve Jobs: Here’s the Original 1984 Apple Commercial by Ridley Scott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial
This was the commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh Computer to the world.
“1984″ is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, Venice, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother. Its only U.S. daytime televised broadcast was on January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Chiat/Day also ran the ad one other time on television, in December 1983 right before the 1:00 am sign-off on KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho, so that the advertisement could be submitted to award ceremonies for that year. In addition, starting on January 17, 1984 it was screened prior to previews in movie theaters for a few weeks. It has since been seen on television commercial compilation specials, as well as in “Retro-mercials” on TV Land. The Estate of George Orwell and the television rightsholder to the novel 1984 considered the commercial to be a flagrant copyright infringement, and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Apple and Chiat/Day in April 1984. The commercial was never televised as a commercial after that. wikipedia
Heard on “Morning Joe”
From Donnie Deutsch of Deutsch Advertising: “every one of the people I know who supported Obama last time around has switched”. Joe Scarborough: “It’s strange, when we’re out talking with Obama supporters, we don’t hear an impassioned reason for supporting Obama this time around. Not like last time”.
David Brooks – Where Are the Jobs?
Summary: in this article David Brooks argues that the problem with jobs is innovation. Innovation which used to lead the way in all areas, helping to create new jobs, has slowed.
“The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.””
Let’s imagine that someone from the year 1970 miraculously traveled forward in time to today. You could show her one of the iPhones that Steve Jobs helped create, and she’d be thunderstruck. People back then imagined wireless communication (Dick Tracy, Star Trek), but they never imagined you could funnel an entire world’s worth of information through a pocket-sized device.
David Brooks
The time traveler would be vibrating with excitement. She’d want to know what other technological marvels had been invented in the past 41 years. She’d ask about space colonies on Mars, flying cars, superfast nuclear-powered airplanes, artificial organs. She’d want to know how doctors ended up curing cancer and senility.
Do the Generals Want to Keep Fighting
Do American generals want to keep fighting in Afghanistan? Hello !!! Of course they do.
That’s what they’ve been trained to do for years and years. They will always believe that they can be victorious. They’ll say it’s just a question of more troops, more equipment, a different strategy, or any number of other things they believe they need. They want to fight battles and they want to win for the good of the country. It’s what they do. No general wants to stop fighting if the job isn’t done, because they will always believe that they can turn things around. What are they to do if we pull out of Afghanistan? Go back to sitting at their desks thinking about war strategy?
Don’t get me wrong. They should be leading troops and we trained them to do that. That’s their role in life. And we want them to always be ready to fight…But many generals will never willingly give up the battle until someone above them says “Enough”. So when you listen to the generals who say ”continue the war”, keep the above in mind.