Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
“The digital architecture of social media privileges the expression of emotions. It privileges the audiovisual over the written, the controversial over the moderate. All of this makes us more emotional.”
The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
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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
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
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
The social app might position itself as the anti-Instagram, but it’s really just another avenue for us to pretend our lives are a highlight reel.
Felicity Martin • BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
The longer view is coming into human consciousness in part because of the radical danger of the immediate moment – which is that humanity might create a mass extinction event and wreck Earth’s biosphere for all the generations of humans to come, plus of course the many species that would be driven to extinction.