• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, September 26, 2011

I just learned a fascinating new factoid to add to my treasure chest of folklore about futurist and cocooning-coiner Faith Popcorn.

Popcorn has built an incredible consulting practice around mining pop culture as a lot of mystique associated with her name, her practice, and her theories. The new fascinating factoid that she just dropped on stage during the opening panel at OMMA Global New York is that her dad "was CIA." If true, that kind of makes sense that she'd be his progeny, because she's really good at taking intelligence and turning it into actionable information.

The information she was creating some action around during the OMMA panel, was the notion that we're evolving so fast as a species that we're about to breakthrough the realm of science fiction to make things like "mind control" scientific fact."

Noting that the CIA has been dabbling in mind control for years, Popcorn cited a New York Times story that says it's actually here – that people can now use their minds to move physical object.

"it's not even science fiction," she gushed, adding that the emergence of mind control raises big implications for other areas of marketing, including the consumer privacy debate.

"If you're worried about privacy, you shouldn't be," she said, suggesting that mind control would obliterate the notion of privacy altogether.