Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready 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.

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. So happy to be here. The world is crazy.

Some people think it's in a mess. Some people think it's going in the right direction. We're going to have a really, really fun conversation today. Listen up, my viewers, my listeners around the world.

Hello to LinkedIn. Hello to Facebook. Hello to Voice America Radio Business Channel.

We are going to be talking about, well, maybe you're watching what we call police procedurals, crime detective shows on TV.

Where did they come from? Would somebody just sit down and say, I'll write a TV show? Did it come from a novel?

Let's flip that around and say, what if you're a writer, a crime writer, a detective writer, a thriller writer. There are different versions of those niches of those genres. We're not going to explain all that today. And you think you can't be a success just selling millions of books. You want your novels to be turned into successful must watch appointment TV they're calling it these

days. So where do we find that blend? We've invited four writers of those genre to come and talk

about whether they feel their success will be turned into a TV show, if that's the only way,

or what's going to happen

with the better TV shows? Do they have to come from novels and who's going to be the one

to bridge that gap? And I'm talking around in circles there today. So let me give you a couple

of quotes. First of all, I do want to have my panelists just say hello before I have them

introduce themselves. I'll call your name and then just wave to the live viewing audience.

Dale T. Phillips is back. Hi, Dale. Wave, hello. There we go. And we have Joanna Schafehausen.

Welcome, Joanna. And we have Connie Hambly, who is pretending not to be the actress Diane Keaton. I can say that. that and she's agreed yes Diane it's nice to have you here thank you and Clea Simon is with us as

well thank you so much and a shout out to Aaron our engineer let me give you a little bit of

background you know I love to do buzz quotes I'm so excited I'm talking fast and that's probably a good

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