Inside Asian Gaming

IAG OCT 2019年10月 亞博匯 74 COLUMNISTS T echnology is going to continue to change our way of doing business and whoever takes advantage of this before others do will inevitably come out on top. So what does the future hold? Here are the five emerging technologies I believe will have the most impact on the gaming world in the years to come. DISTRIBUTED LEDGER (BLOCKCHAIN) When someone mentions “blockchain”, the first association that comes to mind is usually “bitcoin”, but the use of this technology is far more than just bitcoin. Blockchain is in fact merely a method of realizing the concept behind the technology which is more accurately descripted as Distributed Ledger. The primary purpose of Distributed Ledger is to offer a trustful method to record ownership of “things” and to exchange “things”. Each ledger contains only a fraction of the data so even if someone gains unauthorized access, they will not be able to make sense of it. Utilizing the technology to create cryptocurrency is one of themany ways blockchain can benefit the gaming industry. However, there will first be legal challenges and trust to be built with regulators worldwide. The most foreseeable legal use case of the technology is via the development of a trusted network to bring gaming operators and game developers together, creating something new for customers while increasing the transparency of data for gaming regulators. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AI is about automation andmachine learning. It allows machines to observe and to learn from human behavior. 科 技將持續改變我們的營商手法，誰能夠快過 他人將科技應用於經營中，便能夠從中脫穎 而出。 那麼未來的前景是怎樣？我相信以下五大新 興技術將在未來多年對博彩業發展帶來深遠 的影響。 分散式賬本（區塊鏈） 當有人提起「區塊鏈」時，人們通常立即聯想到「比特幣」，但 這項技術的應用遠遠不止於比特幣。 實際上，區塊鏈僅僅是實現 某種技術理念的方法，更準確而言，這技術可稱為「分散式賬本」。 分散式賬本的主要用途是提供可靠的途徑，記錄訊息資料的 所有權及交換訊息資料。每個賬本只含有少量數據，即使有人在 未經授權下存取，他們也無法理解當中的意義。 區塊鏈可為博彩業帶來眾多好處，其中可利用這項技術創建 加密貨幣，但首先要釐清當中的法律風險，以及促使全球各地監 管機構對此技術建立信心。 最能夠使這項技術合法合規的途徑是，透過發展一個可信賴 的網絡，將博企及遊戲開發商連繫起來，為消費者帶來嶄新體驗 之餘，也可為博彩監管機構提高數據的透明度。