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Because the future your parents handed you, that was broken
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General Magic

Because the future your parentshanded you, that was broken

Because the future your parents
handed you, that was broken

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Because the future your parents handed you, that was broken.
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6 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:09:24
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartp
And so that started me in the track of saying, "What can I do to create the future?" - General Magic 00:19
And so that started me in the track of saying, "What ca...
That's what happened to me, and I went into the future, - General Magic 00:08
That's what happened to me, and I went into the future,
And I stood in that moment, inside it, and I looked around my-- me, - General Magic 00:12
And I stood in that moment, inside it, and I looked around m...
It was gonna be so revolutionary that it would take over the world. - General Magic 00:06
It was gonna be so revolutionary that it would take over the...
So this book I wrote in 1989 and this was a compilation of, of the ideas. - General Magic 00:07
So this book I wrote in 1989 and this was a compilation of, ...
And this is what we came up with in 1989. - General Magic 00:05
And this is what we came up with in 1989.
And there it is, we really had it. - General Magic 00:05
And there it is, we really had it.
And they-- and the ones who tell the most compelling stories are the ones who, - General Magic 00:10
And they-- and the ones who tell the most compelling stories...
After Steve Jobs left in 1985, a lot of people were pretty depressed, - General Magic 00:08
After Steve Jobs left in 1985, a lot of people were pretty d...
You know, could Apple still go on without Steve Jobs there? - General Magic 00:04
You know, could Apple still go on without Steve Jobs there?
Marc was one of the first people to see that computing in the future was gonna be, - General Magic 00:11
Marc was one of the first people to see that computing in th...
And it was a telephone, it was essentially going to be a smartphone - General Magic 00:08
And it was a telephone, it was essentially going to be a sma...
Imagine a personal computer, with applications organized - General Magic 00:06
Imagine a personal computer, with applications organized
An object through which you communicated with yourself about everything - General Magic 00:15
An object through which you communicated with yourself about...
Marc always came with his giant red book, uh, and he would thumb through the pages - General Magic 00:15
Marc always came with his giant red book, uh, and he would t...
Please leave a message and we will return - General Magic 00:05
Please leave a message and we will return
I saw a message on my answering machine from Bill Atkinson - General Magic 00:07
I saw a message on my answering machine from Bill Atkinson
You got to come back to Apple to work with me on it." - General Magic 00:09
You got to come back to Apple to work with me on it."
Wouldn't it be nice, if all these notes, which are very useful, - General Magic 00:12
Wouldn't it be nice, if all these notes, which are very...
I was a little skeptical at first, because Marc is such a slick salesperson, - General Magic 00:08
I was a little skeptical at first, because Marc is such a sl...