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Wetten, dass?Ich dachte eigentlich, sowas machen nur die Briten. Aber da der Artikel bei Wired erschienen ist, machen es wohl auch die Amerikaner: Wetten nämlich. If someone makes a grandiose claim, any skeptic can challenge it - "Would you bet on that?" - and the Long Bets Foundation will keep tabs on the wager, whether it takes five years or five decades to come to pass. If proven right, a predictor can relish the victory; if wrong, the challenger gets the glory. Wired liefert gleich einige Links zu den Wetten mit - dabei diese: By 2010, more than 50 percent of books sold worldwide will be printed on demand at the point of sale in the form of library-quality paperbacks.