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This advertisement for Apple could just as well serve as a theme for Plant Cell Biology. How these people could be included in an American prime-time TV commercial requires some thought - and suggests real vision on the part of Apple and the advertising agency. The advertisement was first broadcast in the U.S. around the end of September 1997, apparently as a commercial interruption to a Sunday evening presentation of "Toy Story". The above QuickTime movie is complete, unedited, and presented here for reasons that are not commercial.
Plant Cell Biology now has seventeen Macintoshes, including the server that brings you this page. It also has three PCs of various sorts, and one Silicon Graphics Iris.
"Different" is an adjective, not an adverb; this is true in both American and British English. However, the English language belongs only to those who use it. English dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. There is, fortunately, no English Academy.
"They are not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo..." Perhaps the solecism in "Think different" is thus a metaphor?
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john.allen@plantcell.lu.se Revised 27th September 1998 |
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