Sarah Owen
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Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
The Goop-ification that marked the last decade of consumerism (as exemplified by Gwyneth Paltrow’s feel-good nostrums) shows increasing signs of decay as shoppers, especially Gen Z, exhibit a more critical eye.
Rex Woodbury • The Goop-ification of wellness is on the way out (you can thank Gen Z)
In a famous paper, ‘Are ideas getting harder to find?’, Nicholas Bloom and collaborators found that research productivity has been falling quite dramatically since the 1970s. Their data suggests that it now takes 18 times as many resources as it did then to work out how to double the number of transistors on a microchip.
Work in Progress • Page not found | Works in Progress
A new report has identified the 10 financial actors with the most influence on the fossil fuel economy and outlines the decisive role they can play in helping de-carbonize our future.
Just 10 financial actors hold the key to climate change | Waterloo News
Nature and natural are words with particular weights that are perhaps not relevant now. We are part of a biosphere that sustains us. Half the DNA in your body is not human DNA, you are a biome like a swamp, with a particular balance or ecology that is hard to keep going – and indeed it will only go for a while after which it falls apart and you... See more
Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight
