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?

Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.

Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.

Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.

Bonnie in the house. Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is Tech Rev. We

familiarly and fondly call it Tech Rev. That's the voice in the intro of Ryan Treasure, the VP of,

I call him VP of Everything at Voice America and my co-producer on the show. Happy to be here,

and I have a very interesting topic for you. I'm just going to say to my listeners

around the world, my audience, is somebody bothering you with emails right now? Are you getting texts?

Are you getting alerts that somebody wants to sell you something? Okay, well, I have a quote from

a guru in the field. His name is David Meerman Scott. He's the author of The New Rules of Marketing and

PR. Listen up. Web marketing, we're going to broadly include email now. Web marketing is about

delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it. So if you think about

it, if a company's trying to sell you something right now while you're listening to us on the radio

and in the middle of a

pandemic or hopefully on the far end getting out of a pandemic. Is this the right moment to send

you what they think is useful content? How do you want them to find you? Do you want them to pitch

you? Do you want them to engage you? How do they earn your trust? How do they get you to shell out

the shekels in

your wallet, whether they're digital, whether they're Venmo, whether they're real cash, whether

it's a check, a plastic, I don't know. Are you annoyed by them? Do you welcome it? Maybe you're

lonely and you like all the advertisements. I don't know. Well, let's look at this from a bigger

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