[NTLK] David Hoffman "Road Warriors" Movie (MagicLink)

Forrest newton_phoenix at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 9 05:51:44 EDT 2019


“I'll just get those Wash 'N Drys.You know? Did I tell you I thought of those first? Only, they already had them.”
—Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), “Night Shift” (1982). Great film!
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> On Jul 8, 2019, at 6:55 AM, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This discussion about MagicCap is super interesting. I agree with Ed that
> they missed the mark right out of the gate by showing the wind-up alarm
> clock. However, I remember the 90s and at some points it was not quite
> clear to everyone how technology was going to change our lives, I guess
> this is one of those cases. It was also a bit painful to watch the guy tap
> out his email (or fax?) one letter-key at a time using the stylus. You can
> see why the Newton people thought HWR was the future, it’s much faster.
> 
> I still haven’t seen the General Magic movie, I expect to at some point,
> but I wonder if their implied claim that they “invented” the iPhone before
> the iPhone, is really warranted. I remember drawing pictures of what I
> thought handheld computers would look like in my school notebooks. Based on
> those drawings I invented the Apple Watch and the Hybrid Automobile, so I
> take such things with a grain of salt ;-)
> 
> But then again I still have to see the film.
> -- 
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