Nelson Rose has an exact, if totally unscientific, prediction for when this current [Internet-based gambling] wave will crash: 2029. But he’s not willing to bet on it.
Predictor: Rose, Nelson
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article on Internet gambling, writer Evan Schwartz closes with a paraphrase he attributes to Nelson Rose, a gambling expert and professor at Whittier Law School in Los Angeles. Schwartz writes: ”We could reach a point when the public once again says enough’s enough. Nelson Rose has an exact, if totally unscientific, prediction for when this current [Internet-based gambling] wave will crash: 2029. But he’s not willing to bet on it.”
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: 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: Stotler, Larry