Some observers question whether [online gambling] operations ever will produce big payoffs. “I think it’s a fantasy that’s never going to happen.”
Predictor: Turner, Bruce
Prediction, in context:A 1995 article on online gambling by Yardena Arar for the Los Angeles Times was shared in a TechnoCulture Archive newsgroup discussion. In the article, Arar quotes Bruce Turner. Arar writes: ”Some observers question whether [online gambling] operations ever will produce big payoffs. ‘I think it’s a fantasy that’s never going to happen,’ said Bruce Turner, gaming-industry analyst for the New York brokerage Salomon Brothers. Americans are willing to allow gambling only in highly controlled situations that are impossible on the Internet, he said.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Gambling
Name of publication: The Techno Culture
Title, headline, chapter name: Virtual Casinos Test Legal Limits of On-Line Gambling
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://technoculture.mira.net.au/hypermail/0033.html
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