Sex, Bombs and Burgers (41 page)
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Authors: Peter Nowak
34
Coopersmith, Jonathan, “Do-It-Yourself Pornography,”
Ars Electronika
, 2008.
35
Author’s interview with Gary Cole, May 2009.
36
Coopersmith, “Do-It-Yourself Pornography.”
37
Chicago Tribune
, “The strange allure of photo booths,” May 25, 2005,
www. chicagotribune.com/topic/chi-040512photostory,0,6382269.
story.
38
Coopersmith, “Do-It-Yourself Pornography.”
39
Author’s interview with Jonathan Coopersmith, March 2009.
40
Coopersmith, “Do-It-Yourself Pornography.”
41
Author’s interview with Brad Casemore, March 2009.
4
A Game of War
1
The New York Times
, “G.I. Joe Doll Is Capturing New Market,” July 24, 1965.
2
Slinky history,
www.poof-slinky.com/Slinky-Museum/Slinky-History.
3
The New York Times
, “Talking Toys with Betty James,” Feb. 21, 1996.
4
Slinky history.
5
Silly Putty timeline,
www.sillyputty.com.
6
Ibid.
7
The New Yorker
, “Talk of the Town,” Aug. 25, 1950.
8
Silly Putty timeline.
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Inventor of the Week Archive,
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/sillyputty.html.
10
Lord, M.G.,
Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll
, New York, William Morrow, 1994, p. 25.
11
Ibid., p. 26.
12
Ibid., p. 27.
13
Ibid., p. 20.
14
Ibid., p. 24.
15
Author’s interview with Norman Krim.
16
People
, “Jack Ryan and Zsa Zsa: A Millionaire Inventor and His Hungarian Barbie Doll,” July 14, 1975.
17
Gabor, Zsa Zsa,
One Lifetime Is Not Enough
, New York, Delacorte Press, 1991, p. 235.
18
Lord,
Forever Barbie
, p. 30.
19
Ibid., p. 32.
20
BBC News, “Vintage Barbie struts her stuff,” Sept. 22, 2006.
21
Hot Wheels history,
www.swflorida-hwc.com/page_14.htm.
22
Author’s interview with Norman Krim.
23
Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games
, “Who really invented the video game?” Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1983.
24
”The Manhattan Project, an Interactive History,”
www.mbe.doe.gov/ me70/manhattan/trinity.htm.
25
The New York Times
, “There Is No Defense Against Atomic Bombs,” Nov. 3, 1946.
26
Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games
, “Who really invented the video game?”
27
Author’s interview with Dee Katz, Sept. 2008.
28
Author’s interview with Robert Dvorak Jr., Sept. 2008.
29
Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games
, “Who really invented the video game?”
30
Author’s interviews with Ralph Baer, Oct. 2008.
31
U.S. patent number 3,728,480.
32
PBS biography,
www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/shockley/index.html.
33
”The Time 100,”
www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/ shockley.html.
34
Computerworld
, “The Transistor: The 20th Century’s Most Important Invention,” Jan. 3, 2008,
www.arnnet.com.au/article/202801/ transistor_20th_century_most_important_invention.
35
William Shockley, Nobel lecture 1956, see
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_
prizes/physics/laureates/1956/shockley-lecture.html.
36
The New York Times
, “G.I. Joe Doll Is Capturing New Market,” July 24, 1965.
37
Seeking Alpha, “The video game industry: An 18-billion entertainment juggernaut,” Aug. 5, 2008,
http://seekingalpha.com/article/89124-the-video-game-industry-an-18-billion-entertainment-juggernaut.
38
CBC News, “U.S. Army forms unit to enlist video games,” Nov. 24, 2008,
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/24/tech-army.html?ref=rss.
39
Singer,
Wired for War
, p. 365.
40
Ibid., p. 395.
5
Food from the Heavens
1
From Plutarch’s
Parallel Lives
.
2
Annual total comes from
The New York Times
, “Starship Kimchi: A Bold Taste Goes Where It Has Never Gone Before,” Feb. 24, 2008,
www. nytimes.com/2008/02/24/world/asia/24kimchi.html.
I’ve divided that consumption by the number of households in 2008, about 16.7 million, from The Hankyoreh, “Household debt soars to record high of 660 trillion won,” Sept. 5, 2008,
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_ edition/e_business/308655.html.
3
The New York Times
, “Starship Kimchi.”
4
Ibid.
5
Ibid.
6
Allied casualties come from Cooksley, Peter G,
Flying Bomb
, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1979, p. 175. Concentration camp numbers are from Global Security’s history of weapons of mass destruction,
www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/peenemunde.htm.
7
Nine countries have developed nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. Iran is a possible tenth. Twelve countries have launched rockets into space: all of the nuclear powers except Pakistan and North Korea, but including Iran, plus Canada, Australia, Japan and Ukraine.
8
Glenn, John,
John Glenn: A Memoir
, New York, Bantam Books, 1999, p. 264.
9
My visit took place on April 1, 2009.
10
I have to admit the beans were better at Goode Company.
11
White, Terry,
The SAS Fighting Techniques Handbook
, Guilford, Connecticut, Globe Pequot Press, 2007, p. 28.
12
According to Natick’s senior advisor in nutritional biochemistry,
Dr. Patrick Dunne, interviewed in March 2009.
13
NASA website,
www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html# FUNCTIONS.
14
Examples taken from NASA’s
Spinoff,
2008.
15
NASA, “Thought for Food,”
Spinoff,
1977, p. 85.
16
NASA, “Food Service System,”
Spinoff,
1992, pp. 78–79.
17
I love camping, but I have yet to find decent-tasting camping food.
18
NASA, “Tenderness Tester,”
Spinoff,
1977, p. 86.
19
NASA, “Poultry Plant Noise Control,”
Spinoff,
1982, pp. 94–95.
20
NASA, “Spinoff from Space Fuel,”
Spinoff,
1982, pp. 46–49.
21
Officially known as “Poppin’ Fresh,” the doughboy wasn’t actually conceived until 1965.
22
NASA, “A Dividend in Food Safety,”
Spinoff
, 1991, pp. 52–53.
23
Ibid., pp. 53–54.
24
NASA, “Space Research Fortifies Nutrition Worldwide,”
Spinoff
, 2008, pp.106–7.
25
NASA, “Eating on Demand,”
Spinoff
, 1998, p. 73, and an Enersyst report at
http://ift.confex.com/ift/2002/techprogram/paper_10060. htm.
Cooking times taken from “Enersyst’s Speed Cooling, Thawing Technology Available for Home Use,”
Appliance Design
, Aug. 22, 2001,
www.appliancedesign.com/Articles/Breaking_News/ 8731be2d0b938010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____.
26
The National Provisioner
, “Retort pouches heating up,” May 1, 2005,
www. allbusiness.com/manufacturing/food-manufacturing/460996-1.html.
27
Author’s interview with Dave Williams, March 2009.
28
Harvey, Brian,
The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik,
New Frontiers
, Chichester, UK, Praxis Publishing, 2007, p. 80.
29
Ibid., p. 284.
30
Ibid., p. 283.
31
Space.com, “Russia opens space tech transfer office,” July 6, 2000,
www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/russian_technology_ 000706.html.
32
Cohon, George, with Macfarlane, David,
To Russia with Fries
, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1997, p. 176.
33
Love,
Behind the Golden Arches
, p. 439.
34
Cohon and Macfarlane,
To Russia with Fries
, p. 178.
35
Author’s interview with Shoichi Tachibana, April 2009.
36
Author’s interview with Amrinder Singh Bawa, April 2009.
37
The Daily Telegraph
, “Giant space vegetables ‘could feed the world,’” May 12, 2008,
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1949129/Giant-space-vegetables-could-feed-the-world.html.
38
The Hindu Business Line
, “McDonald’s growth in India hit by poor infrastructure,” Aug. 15, 2004,
www.thehindubusinessline.com/ bline/2004/08/16/stories/2004081600510500.htm.
The 2009 figures were taken from the respective corporate websites.
6
The Naked Eye Goes Electronic
1
Flynt, Larry,
Sex, Lies and Politics: The Naked Truth
, New York, Kensington Books, 2004. Reprinted by arrangement with Kensington Publishing Corp.,
www.kensingtonbooks.com
. All rights reserved.
2
Author’s interview with Lena Sjööblom, Feb. 2008.
3
Watts,
Mr. Playboy
, p. 209.
4
Playboy
, “Swedish Accent,” Nov. 1972.
5
Signal & Imaging Processing Institute history,
http://sipi.usc.edu.
6
From an estimate made by Jeff Seideman during an interview in Feb. 2008.
7
Author’s interview with Alexander Sawchuk, Feb. 2008.
8
According to W. Scott Johnston, now a program manager for Raytheon. Johnston originally scanned the photo.
9
IEEE Personal Communication Society Newsletter
, “Culture, communication and an information age Madonna,” May/June 2001.
10
Author’s interview with Jeff Seideman, Feb. 2008.
11
Optical Engineering
, “Editorial,” Jan. 1992.
12
Author’s interview with David Munson, Feb. 2008.
13
Author’s interview with Kevin Craig, May 2009.
14
Details taken of the IS&T convention appearance are taken from
The
Journal of the Photographic Historical Society of New England
, issue 1, 1999, andthe interview with Jeff Seideman.
15
Eastman Kodak corporate history,
www.kodak.com.
16
PluggedIn Kodak corporate blog, “We had no idea,” Oct. 16, 2007,
http://stevesasson.pluggedin.kodak.com/
default.asp?item=687843.
17
Autor’s interview with Steven Sasson, Dec. 2009.
18
The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations, 2001–2002 PMA Industry Trends Report International Markets.
19
CNET News, “Cheaper DLSRs to drive digital camera sales,” Aug. 13, 2007,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9759018-7.html.
20
National Reconnaissance Project,
www.nro.gov/corona/facts.html.
21
Kroc, Ray,
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s
, New York, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1987, p. 6.
22
Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation
, p. 66.
23
NASA’s Land Remote Sensing Policy,
http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/ landsat/15USCch82.html.
24
Author’s interview with John Hanke, Feb. 2009.
25
The New York Times
, “The Stock? Whatever. Google Keeps on Innovating,” Oct. 31, 2004.
26
The New York Times
, “Google Offers a Bird’s-Eye View, and Some Governments Tremble,” Dec. 20, 2005.
27
Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook 1995
, New Providence, New Jersey, 1995, p. xxi.
28
The Economist
, “An Adult Affair,” Jan. 4, 1997.
29
Los Angeles Times
, “Porn quietly becoming pay-TV gold mine,” July 6, 2000.
30
The New York Times
, “Videotapes for Homes,” June 13, 1979.
31
Ibid.
32
The New York Times
, “Sex Films Find Big Market in Home Video,” April 5, 1979.
33
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
, volume 4, 1998, p. 105.
34
The New York Times
, “Sex Films Find Big Market in Home Video,” April 5, 1979.