Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
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
“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
Census tracts are tiny, hyper-local designations, with populations between 1,200 and 8,000 each; mine is only 0.2 square miles in area.
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
noa* tops library concept in milan with organic roof ring + blossoming park
designboom.com
“In actual fact, [BeReal] is trapping us in an endless, 24-hour cycle – one in which every user knows that everyone else is carefully curating their casualness”
Felicity Martin • BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
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.