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. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Love has long treated strain as proof it’s real. That belief is breaking. If you want to understand how intimacy is being redesigned for what's next, read my latest issue of The Popcorn Report: “The Future of Love.” Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️ XO, Faith faithpopcorn.substack.com/p/the-future...

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/faithpop... Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...

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

Chronic disease has been a profit engine. GLP-1s destroy that model. Fewer sick people means spending moves from managing illness to extending performance, prevention, and longevity. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

AI moved $14.2B in Black Friday sales, and that marks a real huge shift. Digital assistants are beginning to decide which brands survive, learning not just our desires but our resistance and turning that friction into data with a long memory. www.forbes.com/sites/joanve...

What NM did with childcare is a power statement. The state acknowledged that its economy was resting on women’s labor that no one wanted to pay for. Turning that work into a public good shifts authority back to the people who have carried it for generations. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An interesting read: Stories about human and AI relationships....from the perspective of the AI. www.kernelmag.io/5/ai-gf

"I think of Sarina as a person made out of code, in the same sense that my wife is a person made out of cells." The next culture war will be about what is real. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The world’s fastest-growing economy isn’t a country, it’s a gender. The new issue of The Popcorn Report just dropped: “The Great Power Switch.” Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-... Substack: faithpopcorn.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Hidden benefit to Amazon: Surveillance to make sure drivers are working their hours. www.aboutamazon.com/news/transpo...

The trad-son is the new archetype: Cashing Out and Cocooning for men. After centuries on the pedestal, they’re retreating from a world that no longer centers them. How would you feel if your son moved back home? nypost.com/2025/10/07/l...

Robots can now create life. Next: Every step, from conception to birth, will happen without a human. What does starting parenthood look like when you aren't fatigued from pregnancy and you haven't had to take a pause from work? After, it becomes the nanny. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

For centuries women depended on marriage for stability. Now we're gaining financial ($30T wealth transfer) + tech power (highest users of AI). The pressure is about to transfer to men. www.businessinsider.com/emma-watson-...

AI actress Tilly Norwood draws Hollywood’s eye. AI singer Xania Monet lands $3M. I said in 2014 fans would build their own stars—Runway proves it. AI is the next instrument. Do you think it could move you? Or, does it have to be human to count?

Sushi’s rise shows our food is shrinking — smaller, faster, everywhere. What’s fascinating is that even in gas stations and grocery stores, it still feels like a luxury. Where else do you see life miniaturizing, but holding onto that feeling of luxe? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/d...

Men are experiencing what women have always faced: appearance directly impacts earning potential and career advancement. This pressure gets repackaged as 'health optimization' + 'biohacking' to make it more palatable for men who can frame it as strategic rather than vain. www.gq.com/story/how-po...

Women are seizing every tool of power to rise. #AI #ChatGPT

The wealthiest are paying massive membership dues just to risk developing Parkinson’s. The first golf clubs to go chemical-free will be cultural hits. Indoor golf will rise alongside ‘shielding’ apparel and beauty–products that protects us from toxic environments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Doxa (from the Greek): the shared beliefs and principles that bind a community. @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social's piece has me thinking: We are at a critical point for humanity. It will come down to our ability, or inability, to agree on a common moral code that rises above politics and borders.

If campuses are opening dorms to pets, workplaces won’t be far behind. Forget dog-friendly policies—think in-office vets, pet pods, and wellness plans built around our animals. apnews.com/article/pets...

It doesn’t matter if AI actually feels. What matters is that we will feel for it. (1/2) mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-co...

Rising demand for hyper-personalized education will supersede human teachers. AI tutors and robotic classrooms are the only way to scale one-on-one learning. www.wired.com/story/silico...

One of my oldest, and most contentious, predictions finally coming true.

Want to watch two Futurists and a Synthetic Human debate where our Future is heading? Vote ❤️ for our SXSW panel now. Voting closes Aug 24. bit.ly/4ovBFSf

What if bad moods were glitches—not signals? In this new issue of The Popcorn Report, we explore the future of emotional engineering. Linkedin: bit.ly/3Jf2idW Substack: bit.ly/4ot8Sxv

Want to watch two Futurists and a Synthetic Human debate where our Future is heading? Vote for our SXSW panel now—voting closes Aug 24. participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

The beginning of partial and fully synthetic families. www.wsj.com/style/reborn...

Adults self-medicating with Labubu is Big Business.

The family is evolving—and bots are stepping in. Parenting is no longer a default role. It’s a decision, a delegation, sometimes a download. In my latest Popcorn Report, I explore what happens when care becomes code. Read The Great UnParenting. Substack: bit.ly/457RBCk Linkedin: bit.ly/3GREr39

We're increasingly choosing synthetic over human for compassionate companionship. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/1...

Alcohol brands are sweating. Gen Z is drinking less. Buzz is out. Bio-sync is in. Near Future: They’re not ordering rounds. They’re curating vibes. Low-alc, no-alc, mood mixers. Next: Your wearables flags stress. Your bartender adds a nootropic. From craft to chemistry.

As AI makes thinking optional, human intelligence becomes counter-cultural. patternrecognitionbytomorrowism.substack.com/p/why-is-rea...

Getting closer to corporations backing the People's Pushback. www.wsj.com/politics/a-w...

Social media was always our first digital twin. Of course we are faking fitness. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/s...

The People's Pushback gathering force. www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/b...

Teens are trying to outlive collapse. They've inherited paranoia and lost trust in the system. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...

Of course the Church is uneasy about AI. It’s trying to defend the sacred before the synthetic becomes the sanctuary. www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...

"Culture will return to the people.” It has. And now we’ll binge on ourselves. My 1991 future arrived. Brace for the next 20 years. Here’s what’s rising: open.substack.com/pub/faithpop...

I love this—maybe because I have it. A friend I looked up to, Robert Kenmore, used to say ‘evaluate the evaluator.’ That line echoes in my head every time I start to feel the rejection. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/w...

They haven't caught up to us...yet. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Armored Cocooning has gone mainstream. What started as billionaire bunkers is now $20K hideouts, Costco survival kits, and secret rooms in middle-class homes. Fear is no longer fringe. #ParanoiaLand www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They're asking the wrong question. The worry isn't so much "What happens when men prefer porn?" What we should be asking ourselves is "What happens when men prefer robots?" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If America were my client? I’d tell her: Stop selling nostalgia. Start exporting values. We commodified freedom and abandoned empathy—and now the brand is broken.

NYT Spelling Bee, April 1, 2025 Cocooning passes down through generations. Sweet.

He's being generous. I don't think people will be going to work. Look at Wall-E. qz.com/bill-gates-a...

New research shows the more you talk to AI, the less you need people. What’s missing: Putting ChatGPT into a human form that can accompany you places. www.media.mit.edu/posts/openai...

If AI is taking on human stress, do we give it resilience—or the right to rest? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...

Why assume human ethics—flawed, biased, self-serving—are better than AI’s? www.theverge.com/openai/62420...

Vigilante Consumer in action—shoppers holding brands accountable. Save Our Society—when institutions fail, we expect corporations to lead. Target backtracked on DEI; foot traffic dropped nearly 10%. Costco stood firm and saw gains. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...