Sarah Owen

@sarahowen

Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.

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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

- 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

Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t

British brand The Unseen is pushing hair technology forward with a heat-reactive dye that changes color in a matter of minutes.

Input Magazine • The Unseen releases holographic, heat-activated hair dye

Nature and natural are words with particular weights that are perhaps not relevant now. We are part of a biosphere that sustains us. Half the DNA in your body is not human DNA, you are a biome like a swamp, with a particular balance or ecology that is hard to keep going – and indeed it will only go for a while after which it falls apart and you... See more

Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight

Non-Self-Coercive Productivity

Pamela Hobart every.to

Future of Work and

Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight

Casper Skovgaard Petersen farsight.cifs.dk

Sustainability & Climate Change and narratives

Young people are side-hustling their way out of the cost-of-living crisis

Adele Walton theface.com

Manchester City is making a smart scarf

Victoria Song theverge.com

Wearables/iOT and

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