Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
"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
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People understand things through narratives, including the future. Everyone is the science fiction writer of their own life. When hoping for a good life, and thinking about what might bring that about, we are utopian writers; when fearful that bad things will happen, we are dystopian writers.
Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight
"Can I just say though that I hate the word metamodernism? If we’re going to try to define this era of literature I’d rather keep the Enlightenment going."
What is modern literature anyway?
Within the tranquil Porta Vittoria neighborhood in Milan, Italy, the European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) proposal by noa* is intended to serve as a center for creation that inspires and liberates the mind. Titled ‘the Tree of Knowledge’, the project was flanked by the development of a natural landscape that permeates all spaces,... See more
noa* tops library concept in milan with organic roof ring + blossoming park
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
University of Cambridge researchers successfully used algae to power a computer chip for six months. The blue-green algae perform photosynthesis and generate a small electrical current that “interacts with an aluminum electrode and is used to power a microprocessor,” according to an official release.