# Professor Amy Webb shares how she believes tech companies will utilize data from smart home devices in the future

1 Faculty News March 21, 2019 ![Fast Company logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_026723.jpg?itok=PGORMP3v)>

Excerpt from [Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/90322180/amazon-could-soon-force-you-to-go-on-a-diet-according-to-one-futurist) -- "'The microwave decides you should be on a diet and won’t let you eat popcorn,' says [Amy Webb](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb), a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and the founder of the consulting firm Future Today Institute."

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