Much of the technology in our homes was encouraged by pornography. The videocassette recorder, satellite TV, and the Internet are just three big examples of technologies largely motivated by pornography.

Now, if we could somehow arrange pornography to motivate physics, I suspect we'd have interstellar warp-drive hyperspace travel in a matter of years...

- Warren

Lara Croft, physics engine, bounce bounce bounce...

discovery of an artifact that positively indicates the existence of
a very very distant planet populated solely by hot, horny humanoid bitches

Originally posted by spookz
discovery of an artifact that positively indicates the existence of
a very very distant planet populated solely by hot, horny humanoid bitches
Yes, that might do it!

- Warren

I hope they're naked too, that would save time.

I don't think satellite TV, video-recorders or the internet were initially motivated by pornography, actually.

Originally posted by Adam
Lara Croft, physics engine, bounce bounce bounce... I understand that they actually used a pretty sophisticated fluid dynamics model to get the 'jiggle' exactly right in 'Dead or Alive 3' for the X-Box.

Pornography was introduced as a replacement of naturally arising love-relations between young people in arranged marriages (they had not seen one another till the day of marriage, and thier personal preferences for partnership were ignored. They ended in bed with Kamasutra book... to have children..etc.)

I wonder if such a replacement of motivation would enhance physics (or anything). If we are to believe Freud the oposite is true (see his concept of "sublimation"). Unsatisfied sex is in Freuds view the motor of science. Satisfied sex is a sleepy dimwit.
Can you imagine how strong is the motivation of individuals searching the mountaings on a freezy nigth with a bottle of sour milk in their pocket..for a falling star?

Originally posted by ProCop


I wonder if such a replacement of motivation would enhance physics (or anything). If we are to believe Freud the oposite is true (see his concept of "sublimation"). Unsatisfied sex is in Freuds view the motor of science. Satisfied sex is a sleepy dimwit.
Can you imagine how strong is the motivation of individuals searching the mountaings on a freezy nigth with a bottle of sour milk in their pocket..for a falling star?

nice
however, the porn industry with its billions could provide a real incentive for these misfit scientists to get their asses to work


Camcorder and VHS video machines were pioneered by porn barons anxious to find a cheap way to mass market blue movies. Take-up of DVD players was driven by pornographers and their customers because the technology enabled users to skip to and from their favourite scenes.

· Pay-per-view cable or satellite TV movies entered the market only after porn firms introduced 'premium' services in hotels and on digital networks. Interactive television, common on digital sport channels, was developed by pornographers to allow users to focus on favourite actors and actresses.

· Internet use and e-business have been driven by smut. There are 80,000 adult websites, which generate annual profits of more than £1 billion - more than any other e-commerce sector.

The dirty secret that drives new technology: it's porn (http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,661094,00.html)


Since it was founded in 1984, Van Nuys-based Vivid has been a
consistent porn pioneer, recognized within the industry as the first
company to sign a contract star, the first to specialize in
plot-driven sex films, the first, even, to encourage its women stars
to wear little gold necklaces with the company name.

The necklace practice has evolved as a way of creating brand
identity among the different companies--and, porn detractors might
say, a way of treating women as marked property.

Now Vivid, which claims annual revenue of $50 million, is
leading DVD production with 600,000 porn discs made in 1998--and
twice that this year. Vivid's DVD technology is so advanced it's
almost disturbing. Sex scenes can be viewed from four camera angles,
viewers can customize fantasies they watch, and the image quality is
as sharp and lifelike as anything on TV.

Vivid programmers are trying to invent three-dimensional,
interactive DVDs that would be viewed with special glasses for the
most virtual sex yet. And David James, Vivid's co-founder, is
developing a computerized sex suit that would enable people to
stimulate partners via the Internet.

porn (http://www.porncitynews.com/pornbiz/moreinfo/pornthriving.htm)