Sarah Owen
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Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
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But the intent is to build this city from scratch as fully smart.“By building a new city from the ground up we can come out with a more comprehensive city,” said Lee Jae Min, deputy director of the smart city project with the Ministry of Land, Industry and Transport. “It’s not going to be soon, but in the future, we plan to have a standard model of... See more
New York Times • A New City, Built Upon Data, Takes Shape in South Korea (Published 2022)
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
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
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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Social psychologists have known for decades that people are motivated to work harder when others are watching. When they are observed, people run faster, are more creative, and think harder about problems.
Rohit • Our love of authenticity rises as all the world became a stage
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.