Ebook: Sex, bombs and burgers: how war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

Part title; Title page; Contents; Introduction: A Shameful Trinity; 1 Weapons of Mass Consumption; 2 Better Eating Through Chemistry; 3 Arming the Amateurs; 4 A Game of War; 5 Food From the Heavens; 6 The Naked Eye Goes Electronic; 7 The Internet: Military Made, Porn Perfected; 8 Seeds of Conflict; 9 Fully Functional Robots; 10 Operation Desert Lab; Conclusion: The Benevolence of Vice; Notes; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits.;From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie and US missile systems and why Niue, Polynesia is the phone-sex capital of the world, this is a fascinating examination of how much of modern life can be directly traced to one of three questionable aspects of human activity - war, porn, and the fast food industry.