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Featured Futurist: Stuff Magazine, The Invisible Wearables

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By Matthew Griffin Featured Futurist 4th March 2020

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

In the future wearables won’t just track your heart rate, they’ll know more about you than you do and help you in ways you couldn’t imagine.

 

Firstly, thank you to James and the team for inviting me to be Stuff magazine’s new monthly columnist where we’ll be discussing nothing less than the awesome near and far future of all the devices and gadgets you love and fawn over.

 

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In this month’s column I delve into the awesome world of the future of wearables:

 

Matthew Griffin / About Author
Matthew Griffin, described as “The Adviser behind the Advisers” and a “Young Kurzweil,” is the founder and CEO of the World Futures Forum and the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures consultancy working across the next 50 years, and is an award winning futurist, and author of “Codex of the Future” series.

Regularly featured in the global media, including AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, RT, Viacom, and WIRED, Matthew’s ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of revolutionary emerging technologies on global culture, industry and society, is unparalleled. Recognised for the past six years as one of the world’s foremost futurists, innovation and strategy experts Matthew is an international speaker who helps governments, investors, multi-nationals and regulators around the world envision, build and lead an inclusive, sustainable future.

A rare talent Matthew’s recent work includes mentoring Lunar XPrize teams, re-envisioning global education and training with the G20, and helping the world’s largest organisations envision and ideate the future of their products and services, industries, and countries.

Matthew's clients include three Prime Ministers and several governments, including the G7, Accenture, Aon, Bain & Co, BCG, Credit Suisse, Dell EMC, Dentons, Deloitte, E&Y, GEMS, Huawei, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, Lego, McKinsey, PWC, Qualcomm, SAP, Samsung, Sopra Steria, T-Mobile, and many more.
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