Word: orgasmatron
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doubt, we’ll have teleportation devices. Maybe they’ll look like telephone booths, or perhaps they’ll resemble the Orgasmatron from Woody Allen’s Sleeper. In any case, when they finally are invented, teleporters will be the final surrender of travel to the armies of abstraction. And then the hoards of lei-draped tourists boarding their Abstraction Airlines flight to Costa Rica will shout, “So much for the journey. All hail the destination...
...holy grail of pornography, though, has always been a machine that delivers a virtual experience so real that it is indistinguishable from sex, other than the fact that it isn't at all disappointing. Though prototypes have appeared in films (the Pleasure Organ in Barbarella, the Orgasmatron in Sleeper, the fembots in Austin Powers), reality has remained painfully elusive. In his 1991 book Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit...
...Attention all scientists/inventors: science fiction would have us believe that with the year 2000 comes faster-than-light travel and matter displacement. Let's get a move on, eggheads. A simple orgasmatron will probably suffice...