Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
“The digital architecture of social media privileges the expression of emotions. It privileges the audiovisual over the written, the controversial over the moderate. All of this makes us more emotional.”
The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
"The society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise was founded by a physician named Julia Barnett Rice in 1906. Rice believed noise was unhealthy, and enlisted New York City’s gentry (including Mark Twain) to lobby for things like rules governing steamboat whistles, and silence pledges from children who played near hospitals."
Xochitl Gonzalez • Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
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.
Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen em Apple Podcasts
SOON Future Studies - Uncovering the cultural cues shaping tomorrow
soonfutures.com
Future of Work and
"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
Gen Z is the only generation to see recent declines in social media use, per Pew Research Center.
Axios • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
English soccer club Manchester City will keep track of its fans’ biometrics using connected scarf embedded with a biosensor to “get a better understanding of the emotion at the heart of the world’s beautiful game.”
Victoria Song • Manchester City is making a smart scarf
Flow Lab
flowlab.com