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Ask HN: What Is the General Magic of Today?

11 points by HealthGoth ↗ HN
I just watched the General Magic documentary and I’m wondering if there are any startups around today that resemble General Magic (e.g. have a similar culture and high concentration of talented people working extremely hard on something that has the possibility to be hugely world changing). I know most startups would claim they are like this, but in my experience they don’t really have the same culture and ambition portrayed in the movie.

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eaenki
not sure about the culture, but VR, space and robotics are probably the niches to look into for a similar company
la_barba
A lot of anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drug labs. Probably gene-therapy too..
Konnstann
Biotech in general seems like a good fit.
joezydeco
Culture, ambition, a very pedigreed group of employees that have had success in previous projects, and a concept that had been tempered by Apple before starting out.
[dead] MindyKornish
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karmakaze
Magic Leap is the most obvious one that comes to mind.

I can't say if Facebook/Oculus has set as high goals.

Others could have been working on grand tech but not that I'm aware of:

  - Amazon: Diamond Age Dynabook
  - Netflix: eyeTV
  - Microsoft: Hololens already
  - Apple: eyePhone