War and Pornography

No, not war on pornography, but war and pornography as the two biggest engines for technological and logistical innovation the world has ever seen.

I was at Zack’s the other night and I was talking to a recovering lawyer about how Internet innovation was led by porn.

To paraphrase, the only thing that could keep someone sitting on a slow connection waiting for a choppy postage stamp-sized movie to load in the age of dialup was porn.

It was exactly not video phone or video conferencing.

That same is true with the adoption of the consumer video tape and player, the commercialization of photography, the widespread adoption of color printing, the distribution of magazines and periodicals. The list goes on.

Makes me doubt the official stories of the telephone (phone sex?) and the Gutenberg printing press (the Holy Bible, please).

All the rest of technological innovation can be directly attributed to winning the arms race, even if it is hidden behind the guise of science, advancement, medicine, learning, progress, or what have you.

And both war and pornography have something else in common: they are both obscene. They corrupt even the most enlightened of cultures. We are human and have an id. Well, I do, anyway. Don’t tell my mum.

Thanks to the Ace of Spades HQ for being the catalyst.

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