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ABOUT MATTHEW GRIFFIN
Matthew Griffin, serial entrepreneur and Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, keynote speaker, and 15 times author of the “Codex of the Future” series, is the world’s leading authority on emerging technology, trends, foresight, and the future and deep future. His clients include royal households, G7, G20, and G77 governments, and the brands you’re using right now.
MATTHEWS MISSION
I have only one mission – to democratise access to the Future and Deep Future for everyone and provide you with the mindset and tools to shape it, participate in it, and lead it. That’s why everything on this site is free and why everything is about the future.
EXPONENTS DAILY BLOG
WE’RE BUILDING THE FUTURE TODAY . SEE IT MADE .
The decisions and technologies we are making today will all play a role in shaping what our future looks like – for better or worse. As a result our future is constantly evolving. Here you can see what we’re doing today to make our future tomorrow.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Direct Debits are awkward and from a bygone era and Visa is trying to make…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While China and the BRICS try to de-dollarise the world Stablecoins are unexpectedly helping the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s said that when AI can reason like a human we’ll be a big step…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As companies fight over the future of AI Anthropic thinks it’s lots of small AIs…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nanobots small enough to enter brain cells and listen and record what they do is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to communicate underwater is incredibly difficult but also incredibly useful and important, and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of computing shouldn’t be the crappy laptop, this is way cooler and getter…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we merge biology with technology we’re blurring the line of “what” technology actually is….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today we are discovering what AI does rather than inventing it, some argue, and know…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI training and use is incredibly energy intensive and so companies are trying to find…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Industrial greenhouse gas emissions account for 12% of global emissions, but they can increasingly be…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computer chips are very hard to manufacture at scale but this new technology could…
KEYNOTES AND PANELS: SEE AND SHAPE THE FUTURE
WATCH 100’S OF KEYNOTES . CHANGE YOUR WORLD VIEW .
I have the great privilege of speaking to organisations and their audiences about the future and participating in conversations that help shape it, and while I am an eternal humanist and optimist who works hard to discover and present solutions to our world’s most pressing issues I am also a realist. Here you can play, pause, and rewind the sessions I’ve had the privilege of being involved with.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session held in London Futurist and trends expert Matthew Griffin examines hundreds…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote in Athens, Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the future of work and AI…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session in Istanbul Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the future of footwear and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the future of our connected world and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this virtual keynote Futurist Matthew Griffin explores what happens to global business, culture, and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session, which was originally presented three times at the UN COP28 in…
OPINION PIECES: LOVE IT, LOATHE IT
Everyone has their own opinions on matters and I’m no different. I believe all opinions are important and have the right to be voiced, and firmly believe in the values of debate, diversity, and open mindedness, because being closed to any of these diminishes all of us in the long run. Here you can explore some of those opinions and points of view.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With so much Chinese research over capacity increasingly Western companies are hiring Chinese researchers to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology is automating skills faster but also the pace of change is also changing which…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is leading the development of almost all emerging technologies, and the US is increasingly…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China are increasingly dominating in almost all research areas, and they are accelerating the pace…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a technology innovation arms race between the US and the West and China…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The half life of hard skills is now estimated to be five years which means…
PODCASTS: LISTEN, LEARN, REFLECT
Technology development and societal rates of change are now so fast that often the best way to keep current with them all is via podcasts so I contribute as much as I can. You can hear all of the replays here.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this podcast Futurist Matthew Griffin and Ben Wright explore the future of AI, really…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this podcast Futurist Matthew Griffin explores how today’s increasingly complex and disruptive world is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Health is more important today than ever, so make sure you’re getting the most from…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world has problems, it’s also changing fast and both are creating problems and opportunities…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world has lots of challenges but there are also lots of solutions and reasons…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is changing faster than many people might imagine so consider this your weekly…
FREE DOWNLOADS: MATTHEW’S BOOKS
My mission is to democratise access to the future for everyone, so all my content is free including the more than 15,000 pages of content in my Codex of the Future series of books. You can get them all free here.
FREE DOWNLOADS: emerging tech POSTERS
If you have every heard the phrase a picture paints a thousand words then these annual Griffin Emerging Technology Starburst posters, each of which contain hundreds of emerging technologies, paint a thousand futures. You can download them all free here.
