I've long been an admirer of the porn industry's innovative business models as applied to technology and media. And Bilton does a great job in expanding on that theme.
Every time a new technology has been introduced, way back to the printing press, sexual content has helped drive that technology and develop thriving business models that others have been able to adopt and prosper with.
He quotes an essay from the mid-'90s by Peter Johnson, a prominent lawyer: Pornography Drives Technology: Why Not to Censor the Internet, which states that:
"Throughout the history of new media, from vernacular speech to movable type, to photography, to paperback books, to videotape, to cable and pay-TV, to "900? phone lines, to the French Minitel, to the Internet, to CD-ROMs and laser discs, pornography has shown technology the way.
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