THE THREE APPLES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
By: Hope Wilkos, Writer/Blogger
Photographer: George Whylie
Videographer: Maxine Nolan
As profound as it sounds, over a period of history, the world has been changed by three apples.
The first apple was the fruit taken from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by Adam and Eve. The result of this action was the expulsion of the man and the woman from the Garden of Eden. The apple opened their eyes. Because of this action, God condemned the man to a life of toil and the woman to create new life through painful childbirth. This became the beginning of the creation of the human race. It can be said that ‘The Apple’ tempted Adam and Eve on the ‘Tree of Life’ and the ensuing actions and consequences started mankind.
Time marches on and in the summer of 1665 when the plague broke out in London, Isaac Newton was attending college at Cambridge University. He decided to go home to Lincolnshire to wait it out and ended up staying there for two years as the disease took its course. Newton was very studious and his mind was in constant motion. One day as he was sitting in his garden, an Apple fell on his head. Perhaps it was something that could have happened with not a second thought given, but being the analytical individual that he was, Newton realized that the direction in which the apple fell was towards the Center of the Earth. This was called, ‘Newton’s Eureka Moment’ and the defining moment of The Law of Gravity or at that time it was called ‘The Law of Universal Gravitation’. It truly changed our lives and laid out the groundwork for the entire universe as we know it today.
We can all say that there is an Apple that has revolutionized our world today. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and that was the beginning of a huge technological advance with the creation of the personal computer which would then be replaced with the ‘interpersonal’ computer. Jobs was compared to a modern day Thomas Edison. His innovative ideas have given us a means of total communication through a device that can be held in the palm of our hands. This has created a dependency on technology to carry us into the future.
Will there be a fourth Apple that will change the world as our children know it today?
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