Technology is speeding up changes in the world of gaming. It took almost two centuries for poker to evolve from Straight Poker – five paper cards dealt face down with no draw – to Internet Hold ‘Em linking players using computers in different states and even on different continents. Decades passed before three-reel mechanical slot machines were replaced by electro-mechanical gaming devices; then decades more before those made way for 100% computerized video games with virtual reels, and online slots with no physical cabinets at all. Even bingo took years to evolve from a game played with beans on hard cardboard cards, to printed papers daubed with ink markers, to linked machines that are almost indistinguishable from slot machines.

There has always been a latest new thing in gaming. But those are coming faster and faster, usually in completely unpredictable ways. Internet gambling, especially online poker is still being fought over in state legislatures. But the real growth area, a couple of years ago, was social casino games. Today it is daily fantasy sports.

The introduction of daily games has been as big a boost to the world of fantasy sports betting as the invention of the under-the-table camera was to T.V. poker.

But, is daily fantasy legal?