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. You know the key if you've been listening

to my shows for years, four welcomes means I have four special guests, thought leaders. And we have a

hot topic that you're all talking about, maybe not quite yet at cocktail parties, but certainly on

business calls and certainly in policymaking decisions and all over the world. It's a big word. It's

sustainability. I have a little question here for my listeners, viewers, and panelists. What is

sustainability? Before I get answers, I'm going to read you one of the dictionary definitions I found.

I didn't put this in my pre monologue for my guest, so bear with me here.

Sustainability. It has one, two, three, five syllables, okay. The ability to be maintained at a

certain rate or level, as in the sustainability of economic growth. But here's the interesting part.

Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance,

the pursuit of global environmental sustainability. So avoidance of depletion, that's an

interesting, I haven't heard anybody say it quite that way, but I think that's what we're all

talking about. How do we keep the resources that we need for sustaining life on this planet?

So I have a couple of buzz quotes here.

I'll make them brief and then I will introduce my esteemed four panelists

and we will see where we're going to go with this.

So here's a quote from a Forbes. Forbes.com article,

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