Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready 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. Hey, thank you to the voice of Ryan Treasure. Bonnie D. here. This is so

exciting. Week one of my ninth annual Crystal Ball prediction special. Used to do it with 14

guests in an hour when it was only on the phones. What a ride that was. Now I have the privilege

of watching my guests, think, and project, and be visionaries and futurists because we're on Zoom.

So welcome, welcome, welcome. I have a little poem. Those of you who follow the show all year.

And thank you to our fans, our listeners, our viewers all over the world. This year, we were ranked

number six on the top 70 technology podcast to listen to in 2023.

Thank you by FeedSpot.

We've dropped a little in the rankings now, so I'm counting on all of you.

Let's bring those numbers up.

But I have a little bit of, we've been focusing on AI this year.

I have a little bit of breaking news, and then I'm going to read my poem, which is something

I input text to chat GPT.

It gives me back, and at one, one thousand, one thousand,

there it is, like less than three seconds and then I edit it and change it so it sounds like a

human wrote it. Sometimes it does. But here's the breaking news. This is from AI Tool Report.

If any of you want to get that newsletter, let me know. It was from yesterday the 5th of December

2023. In 2023, AI's impact on technology was significant enough to influence the word

of the year selections, get this, of the Oxford Dictionary, the Cambridge Dictionary, and the

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