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The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

In this book, Faith Popcorn, a trend forecaster, delves into the potential future developments that may shape companies, the world, and individual lives. She examines how these trends can influence decision-making and innovation in various sectors. more

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Faith Popcorn
Faith Popcorn

Faith Popcorn is an American author and trend forecaster, known for her sharp insights into cultural trends, particularly in the fields of advertising and marketing. Born on February 11, 1947, Popcorn's career began in the advertising industry, which later shifted to writing and trend analysis. more

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“Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.”

“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”

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