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General Magic

I just recall listening to himand thinking, "Yes, yes!" When we were talkingabout...

I just recall listening to him
and thinking, "Yes, yes!" When we were talking
about re-inventing telephony,
we meant it. This is inexorable

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I just recall listening to him and thinking, "Yes, yes!"
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When we were talking about re-inventing telephony, we meant it. This is inexorable.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
40
Timestamp in Movie
00:38:56
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 world of personal communications, when it's fulfilled, uh, possibly - General Magic 00:09
The world of personal communications, when it's fulfill...
Reporters would leave these briefings saying, - General Magic 00:07
Reporters would leave these briefings saying,
The world that they just described to me, - General Magic 00:13
The world that they just described to me,
Sounds a bit like something from Star Trek, you can send and receive messages, - General Magic 00:09
Sounds a bit like something from Star Trek, you can send and...
It was wall to wall coverage. New York times, Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times. - General Magic 00:05
It was wall to wall coverage. New York times, Wall Street Jo...
It was front page in the Economist, - General Magic 00:06
It was front page in the Economist,
If this works the way this industry wants it to work, - General Magic 00:11
If this works the way this industry wants it to work,
IBM is conspicuously absent from the alliance. So is Microsoft, - General Magic 00:10
IBM is conspicuously absent from the alliance. So is Microso...
Some say it's revolutionary. Others simply say it's magic. - General Magic 00:06
Some say it's revolutionary. Others simply say it'...
So we got a ton of coverage, a ton of coverage, - General Magic 00:08
So we got a ton of coverage, a ton of coverage,
Are they going to be able to actually fulfill on that vision?" - General Magic 00:08
Are they going to be able to actually fulfill on that vision...
Thank you very much for being here. What do you see as your-- your startup date - General Magic 00:09
Thank you very much for being here. What do you see as your-...
We'll be talking about dates and about product features - General Magic 00:09
We'll be talking about dates and about product features
- That's correct. -OK, OK. So-- - General Magic 00:06
- That's correct. -OK, OK. So--
...written record of it. Um, but what we have, we have sort of... - General Magic 00:05
...written record of it. Um, but what we have, we have sort ...
Moments where somebody has to start doing something and, uh, what we have decided is - General Magic 00:23
Moments where somebody has to start doing something and, uh,...
No questioning of Could I be wrong None - General Magic 00:19
No questioning of Could I be wrong None
And then there was this one day where I came to talk to all of them - General Magic 00:06
And then there was this one day where I came to talk to all ...
We don't want you, because we don't need a manager. Our leader, our leaders - General Magic 00:14
We don't want you, because we don't need a manager...
Managers are just going to get in the way. We don't need program managers, - General Magic 00:08
Managers are just going to get in the way. We don't nee...