Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
80 percent of young adults still live within 100 miles of where they spent their teenage years.
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
urban planning and
The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
atelier.net
emotion and Technology
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
Solastalgia is a new concept developed to give greater meaning and clarity to environmentally induced distress.
Madeline Ostrander • The Era of Climate Change Has Created a New Emotion
The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
newsletters.theatlantic.com
The Hidden Cost of To-Do Lists: And yet, despite its theoretical rationality, even the most carefully captured, prioritized, and well-reviewed to-do list can’t always escape the scourge of unintended consequences. As soon as you put stuff on your to-do list, even a purely mental to-do list, you run the risk of awakening that inner coercion... See more
Pamela Hobart • Non-Self-Coercive Productivity
The small town where I grew up has three tracts within it. Staying within your tract is an extreme level of residential stasis, but 30 percent of young adults do just that. By contrast, huge leaps, like my great-grandmother’s from New York to Honolulu or my parents’ from Honolulu to New Hampshire, are extremely uncommon.