Tim Harford

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411 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · Talent, Time and Money: The Curse of General Magic · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, let's see.

Would the product have had a portable panel of musical instruments as the Magic Link did?

Here's the Retro Roadshow YouTube channel demonstrating them.

No, I don't know what the purpose of it is either.

Scratch the musical instrument.

Would the product have had the Magic Link's cute animations of animals, where you could, say, pick up a cartoon cat and release it, and watch it tumble and then land on its feet?

So cute.

But no, you wouldn't.

Would the product have had massive animated emojis?

I mean, it's great to be able to attach a big walking lemon emoji to your messages, isn't it?

We don't really have a lot of processing power here, do we?

Or memory?

Or battery life?

So maybe we could just focus on some simpler personal productivity apps?

Would the product have had an animated toss a coin function?

This was available in the Magic Links game room.

Anytime you wanted to toss a coin, you'd just click over to the game room on the touchscreen.

It might take a second to render all the graphics on this 1994 microprocessor.

There we are.

Now just click on the coin.

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