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Originally posted by Carrie@Oct 19 2003, 05:46 AM
This industry moves at light speed, oftentimes setting the bar for the rest of the online world.
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It'll be interesting for sure... but I have faith that innovations will come. The sky is always falling for adult and somehow the innovations keep coming.
Have faith 
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i'm very fortunate that from time to time i get to chat with some extremely successful people in this business and many have mentioned a similar thought:
everyone is always saying there's no future in this business, but every year i do better than the year before.
i look at the future and see lots of opportunity.
i look at E! on cable and there's an hour long biography of Jenna Jameson, plus the parade of porn stars on other shows like Howard Stern. i see a growing acceptance of adult content in society in general.
broadband penetration in the US is still quite low, so as broadband spreads demand for high quality video and interactive content will grow.
i see that any DirectTV subscriber can now get several hardcore channels now, but all the videos being shown are "mainstream" adult, no niches. somebody is going to want that niche content, and until demand grows enough to make satellite bandwidth profitable broadband internet will be the delivery vehicle.
there will be new billing solutions coming along. i personally think micro-billing or pay-per-use is going to be huge in the future. why charge for a month when you can charge by the minute/hour? nobody seems to be talking about this, but i see evidence that it's coming, at least outside the adult internet.
these new billing systems will allow the huge percentage of the world that don't use credit cards to become paying customers. the US economy is huge, but the population is only 5% of the world population. while the US economy has slowed other countries' economies are growing.
things might look kind of bleak in the present, but the future looks quite bright