I think the porn industry will continue to be at the cutting edge of various fields with spin-off technology helping general computing. Before you laugh, answer these questions;
1) What was one of the main things that led to a consumer demand for the internet, something previously only used by the military, scientists, and universities? Sure, you can make all sorts of arguments, but figures don’t lie; the Internet we have today started for the purpose of people the embarrassment of wandering over to “that section” of the magazine rack and taking their purchase to the register.
2) Who led the way to streaming video over the internet?
3) Who came up with and refined the idea of using credit cards to make purchases, paving the way for e-commerce as we know it?
4) What industry puts so many images and videos on the internet that it leads to technologies to increase bandwidth just to keep up?
That’s just what they’ve done for computing in the last few years, never mind what they did for home video in the pre-internet days with things like Super-8 cameras and VHS. And don’t think that VR and haptic feedback technology are purely platonic either.