Greg Cross, CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines recently took to the stage at the Synthedia synthetic media conference with a discussion titled: "The Robots are Coming and We Need Them Now." His thesis that we are already living in the future because the events over the past two years have accelerated societal change is backed up by mounting data. One area that is greatly impacted is the accelerated need for automation and often it requires a digital brain to determine what types of digital services and interactions will best serve a custom. Enter autonomous digital people.  Greg's talk can also be viewed in Voicebot's YouTube channel where you will see as well as hear the digital humans. However, the presentation and the conversation with host Bret Kinsella are also well-suited to listening.  If you want to know what 2025 looks like, you can see it all around you right now.