"Jupiter Research predicts that 28 million US households will have a home network by 2006...paralleling this increase in the number of interconnected data-centric devices is a corresponding increase in the complexity of the home audio/visual 'network.'"

"In a typical month, surfers plunk down $640,000. Because players make more bets per hour than they would at Caesar's Palace, they literally lose money to the house twice as fast...Every week about 2 million players ante up at more than 1,800 virtual casinos...$3.5 billion will be lost on Internet bets this year, about three times the revenue of porn sites."