WHAT ARE PREDICTION MARKETS?

The rise of Polymarket

By: Maike Freeman

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In an age drowning in information and starving for truth, a new force emerged from the edges of the internet and rewired how civilization understands itself. The World That Prices Everything is the definitive chronicle of prediction markets—how they shattered the monopoly of polls and pundits, outperformed the experts, challenged governments, and evolved into the internet’s global truth layer.

From Polymarket’s rise as the oracle of political reality, to AI agents trading at machine speed, to the cultural shockwaves of memetic markets forecasting virality itself, this book traces the birth of a new epistemic order—one where belief has liquidity, consequences have price tags, and uncertainty becomes a public utility.

Blending futurism, history, philosophy, and narrative clarity, this is a sweeping exploration of a world transformed by transparent probabilities. It asks the uncomfortable questions: What happens when truth is measurable? When institutions lose control of narrative? When AI becomes a forecaster? And when everyday citizens wield more predictive power than governments?

The World That Prices Everything is not just a story of markets—it is the story of how humanity finally built an engine capable of seeing itself.
A bold, visionary look at the future of truth in a civilization where everything uncertain has a price.