Apple Logo
Since the creation of the Apple company, its logo—simplistic and easy to understand (and easy enough to even replicate)—is very recognizable. With a logo as simple as its company name and used as things such as a religious symbol in stories and media, it is bound to have some people wonder what exactly it is supposed to represent. Apples have been associated with health and hygiene (“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”), religious themes (the apple from the story of Adam and Eve, also known as the Forbidden Fruit), and even Isaac Newton (the idea of him discovering the concept of gravity when an apple fell from a tree while he was under it). But do any of these have any correlation to the company Apple in some way or another?
Aside from the very first iteration of the Apple logo, which displayed Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree with the words “Apple Computer Co.” written on a banner surrounding the image, I like to think that the logo does incorporate these themes within its very simplistic logo. What comes to my head is the idea of Apple communicating the idea that they want to focus on knowledge and power—advancement in technology.
Copyright
Copyright, as a multimedia creator, is a thing that is very important to me, and to other creators out there who share their work. We have a responsibility to make sure that our work isn’t stolen or used for something bad, and therefore, to protect ourselves, we should be teaching people about intellectual property and copyright (I also think the concept of Creative Commons and derivative works should also be taught so people know the difference between the two).
Wikipedia and H2G2 are both similar in the way that they are both thought of as indexes for practically everything your heart can imagine in this world (or, in this case, the world that is in the world of H2G2). Currently, as I read H2G2, the in-world H2G2 is incomplete, with incomplete entries about different subjects. I imagine that Wikipedia will never be complete, and it will continue to have incomplete entries as the years go on. As said in the beginning of Chapter 8 of H2G2, “[The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travelers and researchers.” Replace H2G2 with Wikipedia, and the sentence written would still be accurate.
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