Some people say that for several decades now, the adult entertainment industry has driven the world’s mass adoption of some of the technologies that we now take for granted, the video cassette in the 1980s, satellite television in the 1990s, VCDs, DVDs and the present day Internet.

Is this really true? It may be – for example, hundreds of scientists have been looking to make a personal robot for decades and now we have a ‘sex robot’. Read more.

What do you think of a wolrd in which high tech is driven by porn?