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In many projects,
you might build one or two
innovative break-out things, and then you build on top
of a lot of existing stuff,
you kind of stand on the shoulders of giants,
and we weren't doing that
at General Magic, we were building the giant from the toes
all the way up to its head
you might build one or two
innovative break-out things, and then you build on top
of a lot of existing stuff,
you kind of stand on the shoulders of giants,
and we weren't doing that
at General Magic, we were building the giant from the toes
all the way up to its head
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In many projects,
you might build one or two
innovative break-out things,
00:00:06.084 --> 00:00:09.334
and then you build on top
of a lot of existing stuff,
you kind of stand on
00:00:09.334 --> 00:00:12.876
the shoulders of giants,
and we weren't doing that
at General Magic, we were
00:00:12.876 --> 00:00:16.167
building the giant from the toes
all the way up to its head.
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Movie Summary
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