Here. Stross suggests; "It’s well known that the first real use of any successful new technology is pornography."
Students of the history of technology will immediately think of the Gutenberg Booke of Saucy Curiosa, Galileo's Optic Device for Looking at Mrs. Viviani Bathing, The Watt Steam Powered Apparatus for the Relief of Tension, the Gatling Reciprocating Vibrator and the Wright Brothers' Mile High Erotic Saloon.
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Perhaps if Larry Flynt is correct, and the "real pornography" is war, that oft overused statement is actually correct...
Thanks.
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