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General Magic

Today many people believethat information tools are the third technologyto change the...

Today many people believe
that information tools are the third technology
to change the course
of civilization

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Today many people believe that information tools
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are the third technology to change the course of civilization.
Duration
8 seconds
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32
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:46
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
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, ...
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...