With 40 million visitors a year, Las Vegas’ economy is driven by tourist-- just like Orlando.

Casino magnate Steve Wynn mocked his millennial customers as he emphasized nightclubs and other non-casino parts of his business as the driving force for revenue at his resorts.

Steve Wynn said today that he thinks young people probably waste too much time on social media and that he’s not a huge supporter of “the nightclub crowd.”

Steve Wynn is to make a rare appearance at the Mirage in Las Vegas, the casino he conceived, built, and a decade later sold, and which transformed the landscape of the casino industry in Vegas and beyond forever.

Every three years, casino giants and the media press the flesh on the Las Vegas Strip for the International Conference on Gaming and Risk Taking.

He is the man behind some of the most famous casinos in the world, but Tuesday during a walk down memory lane, Steve Wynn said gambling is just a fraction of what makes his business stand out.

Education, immigration and services for the elderly and people with disabilities were the focus of discussions as more than 1,500 leaders from the area gathered for Nevadans for the Common Good’s third Convention for the Common Good in May at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas.

In a National Science Foundation-backed project, researchers from American, Japanese, and Korean universities are pioneering a technique for creating 3D printed soft robotic devices. It is hoped that the technology could someday be used to create realistic robotic muscles.

Las Vegas grew from a railroad town with a few thousand residents in the early 1900s to a worldwide destination with 2 million people by 2007.