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It’s a truism that every new technological advancement in human history has been applied first to advance the interests of the horny. The printing press? Some Bibles, mostly porn. Antibiotics? Perfect for treating STIs. The ocular? Don’t get me started on what those were first used for. Large-scale antimatter production didn’t really fit that model, though. There’s nothing remotely sexy about a rapidly expanding cloud of high-speed quarks and gluons. The second area where every new technology is applied, of course, is war.
The best explanation I’ve seen is that the entire reason humans wound up developing spears and houses and flitters and starships is that we were lousy at being regular animals.
