Tech porn
What's the secret to successful innovation? A new study claims it's something not mentioned in your typical entrepreneurialism textbook:
Fetishism and sexual deviation are helping to change the way people use new technology, according to Dr [Trudy] Barber, and can even influence the invention of new technologies.
"People are inspired by their own sexual inclinations which results in some innovative uses of technology," she said. . . .
"The role of deviation as a key to innovation must not be overlooked as it will contribute to our understanding of new intimacy, culture and the future of developing information and communications technologies," she concluded.
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Certainly, we owe the internet's increasing ability to deliver video to the commercial porn industry. The way in which sexual desires push technology isn't a simple direct relationship of users connecting to users and building applications; without the opportunity to profit from the sale of sexual content or from bringing advertisers into contact with users, there wouldn't be enough capital available to create the desired technological changes.