If at-home gambling on the Internet and interstate phone lines is legalized, it would add $10 billion to the net winnings of the industry overnight.
Predictor: Ader, Jason
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article on online gambling for Wired magazine, Evan Schwartz quotes Jason Adler. Schwartz writes: ”If at-home gambling on the Internet and interstate phone lines is legalized, it would add $10 billion to the net winnings of the industry overnight, estimates Jason Adler, a gaming analyst at Smith Barney, a New York brokerage house.”
Date of prediction: October 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Gambling
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Wanna Bet?
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/collections/internet_law/3.10_gambling_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney