{"id":101018,"date":"2014-04-27T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=101018"},"modified":"2014-04-27T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:55:35","slug":"what-are-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/101018-what-are-the-odds.html","title":{"rendered":"What are the odds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British gaming company Ladbrokes is taking bets on a wide range of technology events, including whether Google&#8217;s self-driving car to be used legally within Europe or the US before 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to Buzzfeed, they contacted Alex Donohue at Ladbrokes \u201cto come up with some wagers for ten of the most hyped moonshots\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe method Donohue uses combines quantitative and qualitative factors and an all-important gut feel,\u201d the site stated.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a title=\"Tech trends betting\" href=\"http:\/\/sportsbeta.ladbrokes.com\/Technology-Specials\/Technology-Specials\/Specials-N-1z0q2ifZ1z0q2i8Z1z13wln\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u201cTechnology Specials\u201d from Ladbrokes<\/strong><\/a> which people can bet on, ordered by the likelihood of it happening.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google&#8217;s self-driving car to be used legally within Europe\/The US before 2025 \u2013 <strong>1\/2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Smart watches listed as a major consumer category and to sell 100mn units worldwide in any year before 2020 &#8211; <strong>3\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Google to achieve 75%+ global land coverage by 2020 &#8211; <strong>4\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Google to release commercial bipedal or quadrupedal robots before 2020 &#8211; <strong>6\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Facebook to achieve 75%+ global land coverage by 2020 &#8211; <strong>8\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Oculus Rift to be the dominate video game console by 2020 &#8211; <strong>8\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Amazon to deliver the majority of their inventory by drone worldwide before 2020 &#8211; <strong>20\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s self-driving car to be the dominant form of automobile in Europe\/The US before 2025 &#8211; <strong>25\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Google Glass to ship more units worldwide than the newest iPhone in any year running up to 2020 &#8211; <strong>100\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SpaceX to colonise Mars before 2020 &#8211; <strong>250\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ladbrokes suspended betting on \u201cBitCoin to account for more of world GDP than the \u00a3\/$ by 2015\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #263034;\">More gadget news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99970-windows-goes-free-for-phone-and-tablet-makers.html\">Windows goes free for phone and tablet makers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99966-microsoft-voice-assistant-cortana-to-rival-apple-siri.html\">Microsoft voice assistant Cortana to rival Apple Siri<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99940-99940.html\">Amazon reveals Fire TV video streaming device<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99866-samsung-galaxy-tab-4-range-unveiled.html\">Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 range unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British gaming company Ladbrokes has revealed the odds of various technology events, including whether SpaceX will colonise Mars before 2020 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":101020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[35,24674],"class_list":["post-101018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline","tag-ladbrokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101026,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101018\/revisions\/101026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}