Blog Post #3: “The Forbidden Fruit”

Since the beginning of time humans have tested their boundaries on how far they can go in exploring, we saw this when Eve and Adam took a bite of the forbidden fruit(the apple). Now years later we still can’t shake the temptation to push past the limitations placed on us by society and we continue to create technology to satisfy our every need.

Just like technology evolves overtime so has Apple products, once a fruit now a whole technological enterprise of devices that strives to engage, entertain, educate and entice the human brain. However, there is one Apple device that I want to focus in on and examine how it affects the way individuals communicate, learn, and think. How it helps society and determines how people interact with each other on a daily basis. let’s take a look at the iPhone.

In Nye’s Defining Technology, he suggest that defining technology as inseparable from human evolution suggests that tools and machines are far more than objects whose meaning is revealed simply by their purposes (Nye, 2) is a great premisses to the fact that writing technology has and will continue to evolve into a more digital space especially as humans become more dependent on wanting to have more effective and efficient ways to produce the results they need.

Since it’s grand arrival back in 2007, the iPhone, has always made moves to improve and be