BARRIER CULTURE

By Faith Popcorn - Futurist and Founder - Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve
We want to stay in touch with everyone, but we’re much too busy (”99 Lives” trend) to speak to people face-to-face, even when they’re sitting in the next cubicle. Our time is so precious that we are forced to prioritize the people in our lives. [...]

“Sex & the City- The Movie” - Tired of Being “Good” “A New Depression Era Classic”

by Faith Popcorn
“Sex & the City: The Movie” comes at just the right time for a nation exhausted politically, emotionally and financially - and signals a growing desire to escape that idea-strapped marketers can use to their advantage.
“Sex & the City: The Movie” joins “My Man Godfrey,” “The Women,” and other Depression era classics, by [...]

“Life Rage” is Tempered by Goodness - Faith Popcorn Study Finds

The tension between “Life Rage” and “Goodness” is the key cultural current to watch in 2008, according to futurist Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve, which fielded a quantitative online study that surveyed 1,105 representative Americans in December.
“From a visceral worry for our very survival -our planet, our culture, and our civilization, to fundamental concerns with the [...]