Sex, Bombs and Burgers (42 page)
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Authors: Peter Nowak
35
Lane,
Obscene Profits
, p. 51.
36
The New York Times
, “Company News: Sony, in a Shift, to Make VHS Units,” Jan. 12, 1988.
37
The New York Times
, “U.S. Move in Video Cameras,” Jan. 5, 1984.
38
Forbes
, Sept. 18, 1978.
39
From a Nov. 29, 2002, radio transcript on
www.onthemedia.org.
40
Video Review
, March 1984.
41
The New York Times
, “Camcorder, CD Sales May Double in 1986,” June 2, 1986.
42
Department of Justice,
Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography: Final
Report
, two volumes, Washington, 1986.
43
Ibid.
44
New Society
, Sept. 18, 1987.
45
The New York Times
, “Justices Uphold Businesses’ Right to Sell Phone Sex,” June 24, 1989.
46
The Economist
, “Heavy breathing,” July 30, 1994.
47
The Washington Post
, “Money flows into poor countries on X-rated phone lines,” Sept. 23, 1996.
48
Family Safe Media pornography statistics,
www.familysafemedia.com/
pornography_statistics.
49
India Weekly Telecom Newsletter
, “Teledensity growing in double digits,” April 2006.
50
China Daily
, “Ninety-seven phone sex lines closed in China,” Jan. 8, 2005.
51
Adult Video News, “Report: Adult mobile market still growing,” May 6, 2009,
http://business.avn.com/articles/35226.html.
52
Author’s interview with Michael Klein, Jan. 2009.
53
Author’s interview with Kim Kysar, March 2009.
7
The Internet: Military Made, Porn Perfected
1
The Dallas Morning News
, “Unlikely innovators: Many online technologies were first perfected by the adult industry,” April 26, 2001.
2
Author’s interview with Tera Patrick, March 2009.
3
Friedman, Thomas L.,
The World Is Flat
, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.
4
Hafner, Katie,
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998, p. 20.
5
From a speech at DARPAtech by Tony Tether on Aug. 7, 2007.
6
From a report given by Tony Tether to the House of Representatives’ subcommittee on terrorism, Mar. 13, 2008.
7
Author’s interview with Vint Cerf, Feb. 2009.
8
He was also officially made a vice-president.
9
Bidgoli, Hossein,
The Internet Encyclopedia
, Hoboken, New Jersey, Wiley & Sons, 2001, p. 118.
10
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
, volume 4, 1998, p. 110.
11
The Dallas Morning News
, “Unlikely innovators,” April 26, 2001.
12
The Daily Telegraph
, “Three loud cheers for the father of the web,” Jan. 28, 2005.
13
Publishing Executive
, “Integrated publishing ad sales strategies that work,” Feb. 9, 2007.
14
Coopersmith, “Pornography, Technology and Progress,” p. 110.
15
Ibid., p. 111.
16
The New York Times
, “Digital ‘watermarks’ assert internet copyright,” June 30, 1997.
17
CNET News, “Playboy wins Net copyright suit,” April 2, 1998,
http:// news.cnet.com/Playboy-wins-Net-copyright-suit/2100-1023_3-209775.html.
18
Coopersmith, “Pornography, Technology and Progress,” p. 113.
19
Author’s interview with Steve Orenstein, March 2009.
20
The interview took place in April 2009.
21
Author’s interview with Paul Benoit, March 2009.
22
Author’s interview with Jack Dowland, April 2009.
23
ZDNet, “Naughton looks set to escape prison,”
http://news.zdnet. co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,2080719,00.htm.
24
Techcrunch, “Internet pornography stats,” May 12, 2007,
www. techcrunch.com/2007/05/12/internet-pornography-stats.
25
Coopersmith, “Pornography, Technology and Progress,” p. 113.
26
Ibid., p. 112.
27
The Independent
, “Danni Ashe: Danni’s drive to Net profits,” Aug. 6, 2001.
28
The Dallas Morning News
, “Unlikely innovators,” April 26, 2001.
29
Ibid.
30
VUNet.com, “ISPs get an eyeful of porn bonanza,” Sept. 10, 2001.
31
BBC News, “Porn and music drive broadband,” May 20, 2003,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2947966.stm.
32
VUNet.com, “ISPs get an eyeful of porn bonanza.”
33
The $3 billion amount comes from a TechCrunch estimate for 2006,
www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/12/internet-pornography-stats.
The $5 billion global number comes from the Internet
Filter Review,
http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html.
34
Adult Video News
, “Analysis: Porn cheaper than ever online,” April 21, 2009,
http://business.avn.com/articles/printable/35077.html.
35
Techcrunch, “Internet pornography stats,” May 12, 2007,
www. techcrunch.com/2007/05/12/internet-pornography-stats.
36
Adult Video News
, “Analysis: Porn cheaper than ever online.”
37
Wired
, “Turns out porn isn’t recession proof,”
http://blog.wired.com/ business/2008/07/turns-out-por-1.html.
38
Author’s interview with Samantha Lewis, April 2009.
39
Author’s interview with Kim Kysar, March 2009,
40
Author’s interview with Michael Klein, Jan. 2009.
41
Boston.com, Nov. 5, 2006, “Miles away, ‘I’ll have a burger,’”
www.boston. com/business/globe/articles/2006/11/05/miles_away_ill_have_a_ burger.
42
Customer Management Insight, “McDonald’s, cell centers and Joe Fleischer,” April 11, 2006,
www.callcentermagazine.com/blog/ archives/2006/04/mcdonalds_call.html.
43
The New York Times
, “The long-distance journey of a fast-food order,” April 11, 2006,
www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/11fast.html.
8
Seeds of Conflict
1
From his 1949 Nobel lecture,
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/ laureates/1949/orr-lecture.html.
2
CNN.com, “President George W. Bush’s address on stem cell research,” Aug. 11, 2001,
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/09/ bush.transcript/index.html.
3
Wilmut, Ian and Highfield, Roger,
After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Human
Cloning
, New York, W.W. Norton & Company Ltd., 2006, p. 186.
4
MSNBC.com, “Bush administration in hot seat over warming,” Jan. 30, 2007,
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16886008.
5
The New York Times
, “The science of denial,” June 4, 2008.
6
United Nations wire, “U.S. mulls action against Europe,” Jan. 10, 2003,
www.unwire.org/unwire/20030110/31347_story.asp.
7
The Independent
, “George Bush: Europe must accept GM food,” May 23, 2003,
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/george-bush-europe-must-accept-gm-food-590957.html.
8
Weasel,
Food Fray
, p. 61.
9
Ibid., pp. 61–62.
10
Ibid., p. 62.
11
Nobel lecture by Norman Borlaug, “The Green Revolution, peace and humanity,” Dec. 11, 1970,
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/ laureates/1970/borlaug-lecture.html.
12
National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit,
www.cjd.ed.ac. uk/index.htm.
13
Daily Mail
, “Questions about genetically modified organisms,” June 1, 1999.
14
The Wall Street Journal
, “McDonald’s, other fast-food chains pull Monsanto’s bio-engineered potato,” April 28, 2000.
15
Reuters, “Eli Lilly and Company to acquire Monsanto’s Posilac brand dairy product and related business,” Aug. 20, 2008,
www.reuters.com/ article/pressRelease/idUS127863+20-Aug-2008+PRN20080820.
16
Weasel,
Food Fray
, p. 6.
17
Statistics are from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2008.
18
Center for Food Safety statistics.
19
Reuters,”MonsantosuesGermanyoverGMOmaizeban,”April21,2009,
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLL62523620090421.
20
The Daily Telegraph
, “Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest-ever environmental disaster,” Nov. 10, 2008.
21
Singer,
Wired for War
, p. 283.
22
Singer, P.W.,
Children at War
, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2006, p. 39.
23
A 2009 estimate by the Institute of Food Technologists.
24
Wired
, “The future of food,” Nov. 2008.
25
Living History Farm, “The Green Revolution,”
www.livinghistoryfarm. org/farminginthe50s/crops_13.html.
26
Woodward, Billy, Shurkin, Joel and Gordon, Debra,
Scientists Greater Than
Einstein: The Biggest Lifesavers of the Twentieth Century
, Fresno, California,Linden Publishing, 2009, chapter 5.
27
From the Monsanto website,
www.monsanto.com.
28
Author’s interview with Peter Singer, May 2009.
29
Singer,
Children at War
, pp. 39–40.
30
Ibid., p. 45.
31
Ibid., p. 63.
32
Ibid.
33
Author’s interview with Graeme Smith, May 2009.
34
USA Today
, “Root out seeds of terrorism in sub-Saharan countries,” April 14,2003,
www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/wickham/2003-04-14-wickham_x.htm.
35
The New York Times
, “War in the Gulf: The troops—blacks wary of their big role as troops,” Jan. 25, 1991.
36
The New York Times
, “‘Counter-recruiter’ seeks to block students’ data from the military,” Oct. 23, 2008.
37
Author’s interview with Eric Darier, May 2009.
38
Weasel,
Food Fray
, p. 68.
39
Ibid., p. 69.
40
Author’s interview with Bruce Cranny, May 2009.
41
Weasel,
Food Fray
, p. 79.
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Fully Functional Robots
1
The Economist
, “Trust me, I’m a robot,” June 8, 2006,
www.economist. com/sciencetechnology/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7001829.
2
Author’s interview with Bakhtiar Litkouhi, GM’s manager of vehicle control systems, Jan. 2008.
3
The 2008 estimate and $21.4 billion projection comes from a report by Electronics.ca Publications, “Global robotics market to reach $21.4 billion in 2014,” April 23, 2009, at
www.pcb007.com/ pages/zone.cgi?a=49647.
The $100 billion projection comes from Robotics TCMNet, “S. Korean gov’t aims to turn robot industry into global leader,” April 17, 2008,
http://robotics.tmcnet.com/ news/2009/04/17/4137987.htm.
4
Scientific American
, “A robot in every home,” Jan. 2007,
www.sciam.com/ article.cfm?id=a-robot-in-every-home.
5
Comments are from a speech at the RoboBusiness conference in Boston, April 2009.
6
Author’s interview with Colin Angle, April 2008.
7
From full-year 2008 company earnings.
8
Author’s interview with Kevin Fahey, April 2008.
9
DARPA press release, “DARPA plans grand challenge for robotic ground vehicles,” Jan. 2, 2003,
www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge04/ media_news.htm.
10
Ibid.
11
Singer,
Wired for War
, p. 137.
12
The Washington Post
, “The Army’s $200 billion makeover,” Dec. 7, 2007,
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/ AR2007120602836.html?sid=ST2007120602927.
13
CBCNews.ca, “U.S. Army praises robot makers for help in wars,” April 8, 2008,
www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/04/08/tech-robo-show.html.
14
Singer,
Wired for War
, p. 78.
15
Author’s interview with Takayuki Toriyama, April 2009.