The printing press’s “killer app” was largely porn, lowbrow content, and anti-Catholic/Protestant propaganda. Historian James Burke has a wood block print showing the Pope and some German protestant agitators, who seem to get a lot of cabbage in their diet, and comically timed flatulence. I REALLY wish I could find a link for that! The thing didn’t spread across Europe to print Gutenberg Bibles.

Porn is a large factor in why we have color monitors, high speed bandwidth, and video cards with more than 1/4 megabyte RAM. It is porn that keeps LGF from being a series of cuneiform marks on a set of clay tablets that Charles keeps in his cave.

Still, Steve Jobs was a bit more honest and brazen than I would have ever expected this time. I wonder if he personally signed off on this?