Enquirer contributor Dennis Doyle argues that online gambling, AI and autonomous vehicles are spreading before society agrees on how to govern them. He cites reporter Dan Horn’s two-month gambling experiment and expanding prediction markets.
Horn had not gambled before the experiment. He found that money on a game made it matter even when he did not care about the teams; the essay says movies and politics, too, could become financial propositions. He finished ready to quit. Doyle says prediction markets let people bet on whether future sports, elections, economic developments and other events will occur; legal and regulatory questions remain under debate.
Doyle says gambling can be regulated to protect minors and people with gambling problems, with safety standards for autonomous vehicles and ethical limits for genetic technology. He stresses these fields have different benefits and risks. In his view, regulation cannot readily reverse adoption once millions use a technology, billions are invested in it and businesses are built around it.
