Faith Popcorn

If you knew everything about Tomorrow, what would you do differently Today? The Original Futurist: faithpopcorn.com/speeches #futurist #speaker #futurism

Laid-off lawyers and PhDs are now training the AI that replaced them. If I were a company asking my own employees to dig their own graves, I'd see The Trouble coming from a mile away. theverge.com/cs/features/87…

This morning at #SXSW, @faithpopcorn and Sarah DaVanzo took the stage with the world’s first synthetic female futurist, for a conversation about AI, human agency, and what leadership looks like when the machine has a seat at the table.

Starting the day with @faithpopcorn and @curious_futures AND Dephi, a synthetic human trained on the minds of female futurists #sxsw

Interestingly, members of 🍊's circle have to shelter themselves from the trouble they started. Too bad everyone can't afford one. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/0…

The cards and campaigns for #InternationalWomensDay are nice, but what’s coming is bigger. Women are about to control $140 trillion in wealth and power. A reckoning is coming. faithpopcorn.substack.com/p/the-great-po…

From the Burger King POV, marionette managing is brilliant. From the employee POV, they're going to hate their AI boss, Patty. Where's the reward? How about scoring well and getting free dinners for a month? theverge.com/ai-artificial-…

RentAHuman.ai lets AI agents rent human bodies for physical tasks. Paid in crypto. We were so worried about being replaced...turns out we're about to end up on bots' payroll.

The most valuable skill of the future: Knowing how to talk to AI. Chatbots diagnosed medical problems correctly 94% of the time when researchers asked, but only 34% when regular people asked. The gap isn't the technology, it's the prompt. nytimes.com/2026/02/09/wel…

The robotization of humans is well underway. Until then...we'll grasp for whatever sense of humanity we can. From my conversation with Mike Berberich on ANA's On Scope podcast: ana.net/miccontent/sho…

People want reassurance that AI isn't going to take over, but the train has already left the station. From my conversation with Mike Berberich on ANA's On Scope podcast. ana.net/miccontent/sho…

Trouble doesn’t disappear anymore. It accumulates and it automates. Read the latest issue of The Popcorn Report "Why the Fortune 500 Is Blind to the Signs; Deaf to the Signals." Substack: open.substack.com/pub/faithpopco… Linkedin: linkedin.com/pulse/future-t…

Where are the perks of the Costco membership? Where's the free home delivery? Chefs cooking Kirkland dinners? In building childcare? snopes.com/fact-check/cos…

If you’re frustrated your employees aren’t motivated, maybe you’re not giving them enough to work toward. Work ethic collapses when the future feels closed. Invest in a path to homeownership instead of another wellness app. (article by @juliezweil) washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

Wait until a government deploys this tech nationwide... technologyreview.com/2025/12/01/112…

Where's the 12-step rehab for your AI? wired.com/story/people-a…

If you’re giving at the last minute, give something that won’t feel last-minute in January. This is a future-forward guide built for what comes next. Substack: open.substack.com/pub/faithpopco…? LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pulse/future-f…?

A different kind of giving. These are gifts built for tomorrow, but available today—chosen to support the life you and the people you love are growing into. faithpopcorn.substack.com/p/a-future-for…

What happens when political identity becomes something an AI can rewrite? Or has that switch already been flipped? technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/112…

Maybe $50B will finally get them to take care of us... mckinsey.com/industries/hea…

This report has it right about the Future of the nation.