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
This coercion to extend every adventure as long as possible — the nostalgia continuum — is the connective tissue fastening past experiences to the logic of the “feed,” which cuts the flow of experience down into atomized parts that are readable to tech platforms, enshrines chapters in life to make them rankable, interactable, and presentable to you... See more
Real Life Mag • Nostalgia for Nostalgia — Real Life
SOON Future Studies - Uncovering the cultural cues shaping tomorrow
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Future of Work and
a recent study found that well over half of Gen Z have recently started a side hustle to help deal with the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis.
Adele Walton • Young people are side-hustling their way out of the cost-of-living crisis
Researchers Use Algae to Power a Computer for Months
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Biotechnology and
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.
Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight
Gen Z is the only generation to see recent declines in social media use, per Pew Research Center.