Take Heart, Gamblers and Checker-players! Criswell Predicts...

"I Predict... that chance will be taken out of gambling completely for you will be able to afford a small electronic brain in your own home [by 1981]. You can feed it equations and questions and get the correct answers, the right horse, the trumps in your opponents' hands and the right number on the roulette table. I predict a contometer which will reveal how long you will live and what disease will carry you beyond to the golden shores. Your life will be laid out like a checkerboard as nights and days. It is true you will have these choices and you may make your own choice. But nevertheless, it will be laid out for you in a checkerboard fashion."