Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
"Today, 85 percent of adults say they spent more time outside when they were kids than children do today."
The Atlantic • To Get Out of Your Head, Get Out of Your House
- at age 26, 30% of Americans live in the census tract they lived in at 16
- 58% live less than 10 miles away- 80 percent live less than 100 miles away- 90 percent live less than 500 miles away
- 58% live less than 10 miles away- 80 percent live less than 100 miles away- 90 percent live less than 500 miles away
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
The sound of gentrification is silence.
Xochitl Gonzalez • Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
80 percent of young adults still live within 100 miles of where they spent their teenage years.
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
The ‘Gen Z lab’ will employ 100 under-25s, in order to offer insight into the Gen Z consumer mindset
Edelman hires Gen Z cohort and appoints ‘ZEO’
“In actual fact, [BeReal] is trapping us in an endless, 24-hour cycle – one in which every user knows that everyone else is carefully curating their casualness”
Felicity Martin • BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
Relationships and Gen Z
Researchers Use Algae to Power a Computer for Months
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Biotechnology and
In a famous paper, ‘Are ideas getting harder to find?’, Nicholas Bloom and collaborators found that research productivity has been falling quite dramatically since the 1970s. Their data suggests that it now takes 18 times as many resources as it did then to work out how to double the number of transistors on a microchip.