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General Magic

It's even more comprehensivethan I remembered

It's even more comprehensive
than I remembered

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It's even more comprehensive than I remembered.
Duration
5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
01:11:05
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
Now that I look at it, I think, what were we thinking? - General Magic 00:07
Now that I look at it, I think, what were we thinking?
And we thought we could push the industry, we could make them do it. - General Magic 00:05
And we thought we could push the industry, we could make the...
Mm... Not there, it wasn't there. - General Magic 00:07
Mm... Not there, it wasn't there.
I'm old enough now to know that it's behind me, you know, it's-- it's, uh-- - General Magic 00:13
I'm old enough now to know that it's behind me, yo...
The stamina, you're also not as contaminated by the past. - General Magic 00:05
The stamina, you're also not as contaminated by the pas...
That, uh, stuff I-- I worked on - General Magic 00:11
That, uh, stuff I-- I worked on
Yeah, so there is a General Magic device, the Sony Magic Link. - General Magic 00:05
Yeah, so there is a General Magic device, the Sony Magic Lin...
Now I have thought about it a lot, there is a whole litany of things, - General Magic 00:07
Now I have thought about it a lot, there is a whole litany o...
A lot of blunders that I'm personally responsible for. - General Magic 00:06
A lot of blunders that I'm personally responsible for.
It was completely possible to achieve the most ambitious - General Magic 00:09
It was completely possible to achieve the most ambitious
We sometimes need closure on things that are not closeable. - General Magic 00:05
We sometimes need closure on things that are not closeable.
A peak experience, positive or negative happens, it's not easy to resolve. - General Magic 00:06
A peak experience, positive or negative happens, it's n...
In the moment we all do the best we can do in the moment, at that moment. - General Magic 00:08
In the moment we all do the best we can do in the moment, at...
I felt, a profound feeling of humiliation. - General Magic 00:05
I felt, a profound feeling of humiliation.
Shame that I had brought everyone along with such high anticipation - General Magic 00:11
Shame that I had brought everyone along with such high antic...
So I remember coming home one evening, so the kids were still up. - General Magic 00:08
So I remember coming home one evening, so the kids were stil...
"Daddy." And daddy had given it all to perfect strangers. - General Magic 00:07
"Daddy." And daddy had given it all to perfect str...
And my wife said, "Don't come home like this." - General Magic 00:11
And my wife said, "Don't come home like this."...
"If you need to sit in your car, for hours - General Magic 00:08
"If you need to sit in your car, for hours
Don't walk in the door if you're not a person, if you're not present, - General Magic 00:08
Don't walk in the door if you're not a person, if ...