Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
54% of these experts said that they expect by 2040 the metaverse WILL be a much-more-refined and truly fully-immersive, well-functioning aspect of daily life for a half billion or more people globally.
Pew Research Center • The Metaverse in 2040
A new paper by Harvard found that:
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
Just 10 financial actors hold the key to climate change | Waterloo News
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Thus we stumble across a new standard for productivity: non-self-coercion. If you wouldn't vociferously berate your coworkers or roommates for their various foibles and inefficiencies, why do you keep behaving as if it’s acceptable to do it to yourself?
Pamela Hobart • Non-Self-Coercive Productivity
This coercion to extend every adventure as long as possible — the nostalgia continuum — is the connective tissue fastening past experiences to the logic of the “feed,” which cuts the flow of experience down into atomized parts that are readable to tech platforms, enshrines chapters in life to make them rankable, interactable, and presentable to you... See more
Real Life Mag • Nostalgia for Nostalgia — Real Life
Renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté is a sought after expert on addiction, trauma, and childhood development. In this brilliant episode of Pulling the Thread , he discusses various themes revolving around the relationship between stress and illness, a subject he's clinically explored over the course of four decades.
Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen em Apple Podcasts
No roads, cars or emissions, it will run on 100% renewable energy and 95% of land will be preserved for nature. People's health and wellbeing will be prioritized over transportation and infrastructure, unlike traditional cities. Only 200 meters wide, but 170 kilometers long and 500 meters above sea level.
THE LINE: a revolution in urban living
What is modern literature anyway?
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