Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
So far, the Libermans have traded around three per cent of their futures, which investors have valued at four hundred million dollars, or about a hundred million dollars per Liberman. They spent a few months in conversation with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list themselves on the stock market, which they hope to do by 2023.
Nathan Heller • Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future?
Gen-Z and younger millennials are much more likely to seek mental health help than older generations, according to a 2018 survey by the American Psychological Association.
New York Times • Seeking Relationship, Therapy Required
Lifestyle brand Hypebeast has collaborated with Jun Co, an apparel and lifestyle creation company, to launch the first Hypegolf store in Sarugaku-Cho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Hypebeast opens its first Hypegolf store in Japan
English soccer club Manchester City will keep track of its fans’ biometrics using connected scarf embedded with a biosensor to “get a better understanding of the emotion at the heart of the world’s beautiful game.”
Victoria Song • Manchester City is making a smart scarf
"frictionless experiences with technology mean that we notice less about the tools we’re using and what it is they actually do. This, he thinks, promotes a kind of self-absorption. We don’t see ourselves as being in conversation with our tools or the physical world; instead, we see ourselves as masters of our environment, with the expectation that... See more
The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
Our slow growth is a puzzle. We have generated huge amounts of useful knowledge. We have made it easier and easier to access this knowledge from anywhere in the world. We have Jstor and Google Books to dig through existing knowledge, and easy data analysis with Excel. We can collaborate with people all over the world through Zoom and Slack. And... See more
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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.
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"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
