February 28, 2023 Swarm Intelligence
Can looking up and looking down give us insight into the future of human collaboration? Our recent JOLTY guests, Louis Rosenberg and David Baltaxe, founders...
January 12, 2023 The Future Doesn’t Have to Wait
Operating in the brain space of the future is itself a powerful force for innovation and imagination. It’s an aperture-widening way of working that makes...
October 28, 2022 One of the true Jolty Joys
June 20, 2022 Ringing the bell at NASDAQ in the #metaverse
January 1, 2022 2035: Welcome To Your Metalife
January 8, 2021 The Nostradamus of Marketing
How did you predict that, I ask Faith. “I don’t have a crystal ball to peer into,” says the futurist, with a laugh. Instead, her...
June 15, 2020 The Radical Reinvention of Work
Office life is on the verge of extinction. Why pay for desk space when only 25% of employees can safely come in and sit in...
June 15, 2020 Welcome to 2030
“What’s next?”: That’s the question everyone is asking, from the CEOs my team consults with to my friends weathering the Covid-19 lockdown. “How will we...
March 12, 2020 Marketing to Cult Brands
On a rainy weekend last Fall, over 25,000 Brooklynites lined up to enter the hottest happening in the borough. The attraction? Not a political rally,...
March 6, 2020 Can the Obsolescent Male Survive?
Every day, there are new signs and signals that men are struggling. The news is full of reports of them flailing and floundering: A 21%...
November 15, 2019 The Future of Christmas Wishlists
What do you get the person who literally “has everything”?! For the majority of us who loathe the annual chore, it’s about to get, well,...
June 20, 2019 Cloud Doctoring
Say good-bye to MDs, RNs, and NPs, as a new digitized approach to health unfolds.
April 20, 2019 Chasing the Chill: The New Need State
Are you in the liquor industry? Run a hospitality brand? Market a CPG? Or manage pharmaceutical drugs? Then read on. Actually, whichever industry you’re in,...
April 17, 2019 How High Will We Go?
There’s no doubt that the legalization of cannabis will change our culture. Manufacturers, retailers and marketers are already scrambling to get a piece of the...
April 1, 2019 Retail Reinvention
The cultural strategists at Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve—the future-focused strategic consultancy—are sharing updated signals of where retail is heading. Aware of the reports of the death...
April 1, 2019 The Popcorn Political Report
The Original Futurist with a 95% accuracy rate for predicting cultural Trends, forecasted the societal shifts that would leave to Donald Trump’s surprising 2016 election...
March 26, 2019 Your Gender-Free Future
Here’s what it means to your brands and your business. Most of us are used to a binary view of the world when it comes...
March 16, 2019 Mood Modulation
Forty-six percent of teens today say they’re so stressed, they feel hopeless. They’re sad, mad, discouraged. They wish they felt better. Do you know the...
March 14, 2019 When Everyone Lives to be 130
It’s a very good time to be very old. We’re entering an era in which the elderly will have extraordinarily long lives and a position...
March 12, 2019 Breathe in the Good
A new focus on air quality will impact what and how you breathe tomorrow “Breathe in the good, exhale the bad.” This popular mantra takes...
March 7, 2019 What We’re Eating Now
The way we eat is morphing at an exponential rate, and our team of global Trendspotters has been scanning for the most intriguing products, services...
March 5, 2019 Inside the Gig Economy
The gig economy has been on the rise for several years, and many reports point to a continued trend. Simply put, this term describes the...
March 5, 2019 Welcome to the Emo-Surveillance Era
Beyond tracking where we roam, tech can now monitor how we feel, and mining our moods will become big business. Are you in the socio-emotive...
March 5, 2019 Podcast: Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods
Joan Hamburg of WOR radio interviewed Faith Popcorn to get her perspective on Amazon’s purchase of Wholefoods for $13 billion. In a wide-ranging conversation about...
February 21, 2019 Forces Transforming Consumers
Dedicated to investing, Barron’s provides unrivaled investment ideas and insights. Since 1921, Barron’s has been the trusted leader in financial news, in-depth market analysis, and...
January 15, 2019 Gen Z: The New Rules of Retail
Stores are closing on Main Street, ecommerce is booming (up 15% in the last quarter), and malls are being reinvented as lifestyle hubs. Retail is...
June 1, 2018 Tomorrow’s Creative Leadership
Charles Day regularly interviews the guiding forces behind some of the most disruptive companies in the world on his podcast, “Fearless: The Art of Creative Leadership.”...