Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
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
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
- at age 26, 30% of Americans live in the census tract they lived in at 16
- 58% live less than 10 miles away- 80 percent live less than 100 miles away- 90 percent live less than 500 miles away
- 58% live less than 10 miles away- 80 percent live less than 100 miles away- 90 percent live less than 500 miles away
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
Future of Work and
Big Tech and
What defines new relational stages today, given they’re always mixed together with old ones on platforms eager to keep you engaged? How do you mark a new “era” when you’re keeping tabs on the day-to-day lives of hundreds of people who will never tangibly occupy your day-to-day life again?
Real Life Mag • Nostalgia for Nostalgia — Real Life
The social app might position itself as the anti-Instagram, but it’s really just another avenue for us to pretend our lives are a highlight reel.
Felicity Martin • BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
Grand narratives can be considered large-scale formation flight paths through narrative space, modeled perhaps as a Hofstede space crossed with time. When thousands to millions of people are living out versions of aligned, small stories within a larger one, some stories will represent “drafting” off other stories. Stable societies can be understood
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