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{{quote|''"If you really look into the history of our technological development, you'll notice that the force driving us forward all this time wasn't our need to better ourselves or seek out truth in all its forms, but rather our desire to see naked people touch each other's junk."''|''[[Cracked.com]]'', [http://www.cracked.com/article_18888_5-ways-porn-created-modern-world.html "5 Ways Porn Created the Modern World"]}}
{{quote|''"When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark." As soon as Caxton invented the printing press, we were using it to make pictures of, hey, naked bottoms! [[The Internet Is for Porn|We have turned the Internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms.]] So you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms."''|Steve Taylor, [[Coupling]]}}
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** As Scott Adams (creator of ''[[Dilbert]])'' once wrote, "The holodeck will be [[The End of the World as We Know It|mankind's last invention.]]"
** ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' implied that use with Barclay and his holo-addiction and Geordi and that female engineer. In both cases the real people were very angry when they saw how their holographic selves were being used.
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' took this to a new extreme: the technology that will reprogram humanity into a horde of mindless engines of pure violence and bring about the apocalypse? Let alone allow the technology that would allow the villains behind said apocalypse to gain immortality via erasing innocent peoples' minds and over-writing them with their own mind? It came from technology that allowed for prostitutes/escorts to be programmed into personalized sex puppets.
** Which itself seems like a [[Shout-Out]] to Molly Millions, the best-known character of [[William Gibson]]. In ''[[Neuromancer]]'' the use of sex puppets is the ''only'' thing such technology is used for.
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* In one of the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' movies (probably ''The River of Souls''), a sketchy businessman runs a holo-brothel in Down Below, using holograms and special suits to simulate touch. It is never stated how often the suits are cleaned, but they are glitchy enough to occasionally electrocute the wearer.
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* It's believed a similar dynamic is at work with the quick adoption of camera phones.
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