Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
More countries most commonly dream of snakes than any other topic, and it is the most common in more than 1/3 of the countries we surveyed (52 out of 147).
The Most Common Dream in Every Country
- 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
"According to the Outdoor Foundation, Americans went on 1 billion fewer outings in nature in 2018 compared with 2008."
The Atlantic • To Get Out of Your Head, Get Out of Your House
“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?
Millennials and sociology
"The society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise was founded by a physician named Julia Barnett Rice in 1906. Rice believed noise was unhealthy, and enlisted New York City’s gentry (including Mark Twain) to lobby for things like rules governing steamboat whistles, and silence pledges from children who played near hospitals."