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Sex, Bombs And Burgers: How War, Porn And Fast Food Shaped Technology As We Know It (2010)

by Peter Nowak(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670069663 (ISBN13: 9780670069668)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Viking Canada

review 1: Pretty bog-standard 'pop science' book, exploring how much of modern technology comes from one of three motivations: war, food, and sex. Like most 'pop science' books, it sometimes feels a little bit handwavey (random predictions presented as inevitable, hypotheses on motivations and causes presented as fact, etc). That said, it's entertaining, thought-provoking and well-written. Can't really complain.
review 2: Although the book occasionally becomes merely a listing of inventions brought to you by war and porn, it keeps the reader's interest. Read it if only to understand how well integrated the military, government and business became in the US and for the chapter in which the author details how the middle east has become a living laboratory for all the new ... moretoys produced by the military. The complete integration of business, military and gov't in the US compared to the Soviet Union is astounding especially when one considers ideologically it should have been the opposite. less

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