Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
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Wearables/iOT and
Future of Work and
For some singles, a potential partner who isn’t working on their mental health is not an option.
New York Times • Seeking Relationship, Therapy Required
It reported less use of every social media app last fall, except for TikTok, according to Piper Sandler's most recent Gen Z consumer survey.
Axios • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Future of Work and
In a first-of-its-kind certification program titled “Business in the Metaverse Economy,” the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will offer business professionals a six-week crash course on topics like VR technologies and blockchain-based worlds like The Sandbox and Decentraland.
Wharton launches the first Ivy League crash course on the metaverse for business executives
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
"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
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