[Gambling is] a vice that will drive masses of people to interact in virtual worlds. In some ways, the ability to be hedonistic virtually is better than doing it in real life.
Predictor: Herschman, David
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article on online gambling for Wired magazine, Evan Schwartz interviews Internet businessman David Herschman: ”‘[Gambling is] a vice that will drive masses of people to interact in virtual worlds,’ says David Herschman, co-founder of Virtual Vegas Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif., company that runs a gaming den on the World Wide Web. ‘In some ways, the ability to be hedonistic virtually is better than doing it in real life.'”
Biography:David Herschman, the founder of Virtual Vegas, the online gambling service, also founded a CD publishing company in the 1990s. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: September 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: Gambling
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Wanna Bet?
Quote Type: Direct quote
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: Stotler, Larry