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I was just too tunnel-visioned to be able to appreciate that
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I was just too tunnel-visionedto be able to appreciate that

I was just too tunnel-visioned
to be able to appreciate that

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I was just too tunnel-visioned to be able to appreciate that.
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00:07:21
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
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documentary
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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
I got a phone call, like around 10:00 a.m. in the morning - General Magic 00:09
I got a phone call, like around 10:00 a.m. in the morning
The core team was stunned. That said, things were a mess in many ways. - General Magic 00:08
The core team was stunned. That said, things were a mess in ...
But Steve and John Sculley didn't agree about what to do with it. - General Magic 00:05
But Steve and John Sculley didn't agree about what to d...
Fights escalated to the point where the board told Sculley - General Magic 00:07
Fights escalated to the point where the board told Sculley
Um, wrenching decision for everyone, - General Magic 00:09
Um, wrenching decision for everyone,
Since the Mac, - General Magic 00:09
Since the Mac,
Any other project that kept coming up, kinda fizzled very quickly - General Magic 00:11
Any other project that kept coming up, kinda fizzled very qu...
Good evening, I'm Marc Porat. - General Magic 00:04
Good evening, I'm Marc Porat.
Today many people believe that information tools - General Magic 00:08
Today many people believe that information tools
Changing our relationship to nature, to each other, - General Magic 00:08
Changing our relationship to nature, to each other,
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, ...