4.9 • 112 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away? |
0:16.4 | Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now. |
0:21.6 | Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now. |
0:31.0 | Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham. |
0:36.3 | Ooh, into the future of now. That's my co-producer, Ryan Treasure. I love that now, |
0:41.2 | now, now. Welcome. I'm going to try not to sing a little song to open the show today. Those of you who, |
0:47.3 | I won't say are boomers like me, but I just said it might remember this. How much is that doggy in the window, The one with the waggily tail. How much is that |
0:58.3 | doggy in the window? I do hope that doggy's for sale. My voice teacher wouldn't be too mad at me for that. |
1:05.3 | In 1953, reached number one. Patty Page sang it much better than I could. It reached number one on the |
1:11.4 | billboard and cash box charts. It sold more than two million copies and then a woman named |
1:16.7 | Leta Rosa sang it in the UK. She got to number one the first woman in Britain to reach a number |
1:22.9 | one chart-topping song and it was the first song with a question mark in the title to ever reach number one. |
1:28.5 | That sort of sets us up for the topic today, but now let me get more serious. |
1:32.5 | I have a quote, a couple of quotes from an article in USA today. |
1:36.2 | So listen up. |
1:37.4 | Pet adoptions, so we're not talking about selling, we're talking about adoptions. |
1:40.8 | Pet adoptions are way up amid the coronavirus crisis, even with shelters closed to the public. |
1:48.1 | That's the first quote. |
1:49.0 | Let me read a little more. |
1:50.3 | Like everyone else forced to improvise in the face of an unprecedented crisis, America's |
1:56.4 | animal shelters are coming up with creative ways to stay, quote, unquote, open so they can continue |
2:02.0 | pairing pets and people. Americans are rushing, well, not to their local shelters, but to their |
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