Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
“Non-self-coercion” is the conceptual distillation of several converging threads of what you could call productivity criticism (if not outright backlash).
Pamela Hobart • Non-Self-Coercive Productivity
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
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.
Pew Research Center • The Metaverse in 2040
Renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté is a sought after expert on addiction, trauma, and childhood development. In this brilliant episode of Pulling the Thread , he discusses various themes revolving around the relationship between stress and illness, a subject he's clinically explored over the course of four decades.