Apple’s 1984 Commercial Strikes A Different Chord 41 Years Later

Who is marching in lockstep now?

The legendary Apple 1984 commercial turns 41 today.

 The commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, has become as iconic as the computer and the company it advertised. Given everything going on in the world currently as we watch Tim Cook and other so-called leaders of the tech industry fall into lockstep with the new U.S. administration, the message has a much deeper and darker resonance than it did when it was just advertising a new computer. 

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