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Changing our relationship to nature, to each other
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General Magic

Changing our relationshipto nature, to each other, to the very waywe experience reality

Changing our relationship
to nature, to each other, to the very way
we experience reality

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Changing our relationship to nature, to each other,
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to the very way we experience reality.
Duration
8 seconds
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40
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:53
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
The Aspen Institute attracted some of the most amazing people. - General Magic 00:05
The Aspen Institute attracted some of the most amazing peopl...
It had a place where they could speak freely to each other in private. - General Magic 00:05
It had a place where they could speak freely to each other i...
Cyrus Vance or Henry Kissinger or the Shahbanou of Iran or-- - General Magic 00:09
Cyrus Vance or Henry Kissinger or the Shahbanou of Iran or--
Those were the people, that was, that was the teaching there, you could, - General Magic 00:09
Those were the people, that was, that was the teaching there...
Because the future your parents handed you, that was broken. - General Magic 00:06
Because the future your parents handed you, that was broken.
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...