Wanna bet that by 2025, we will receive intelligent signals from outside our solar system? Put $2,000 where your mouth is and go do it!
Co-founded by Wired’s Kevin Kelly, LongBets.com is a forum for those of us with big ideas and money to burn. For example, inventor/author/futurist Ray Kurzweil has bet Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus, $20,000 that “a computer will pass the Turing Test by 2029.“
See the open bets and bets on the record for a glimpse into some neat ideas by some interesting people. Betters so far include blog-dude Dave Winer vs. NY Times-dude Martin Nisenholtz and Microsofty Craig Mundie vs. Lord-Google, Eric Schmidt.
People will even notice that Ted Danson is in on the game.
