Long Bets

by Steven Garrity

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.

 

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