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ABOUT MATTHEW GRIFFIN
Matthew Griffin, CEO and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, keynote speaker and 13 times author, is the world’s leading authority on emerging technology, trends, foresight, and the future and deep future. His clients include royal households, G7 and G20 governments, and many of the brands you’ll use today.
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
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 What if rather than making us lazier AI helped us enter “work nirvana” – the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are increasingly learning how to manipulate the code of life – DNA – and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While this is probably not the best idea we are already seeing technologies such as…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI can do a lot of weird things, like make its own languages, evolve, replicate,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Passwords suck, they are easily cracked, but Apples new system protects you in a new…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Communications speeds matter in todays world and as China looks to supercharge its digital economy…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By being able to call and interact with third party systems, AI’s, apps, scripts, websites,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you build your company on top of another company’s products minor changes to those…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our ancient utilities infrastructure is crumbling and companies and humans can’t fix the pipes fast…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Aalyria’s laser communications technology will dramatically improve the speed of global internet systems. Love…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technologies such as BMI and AI are getting even better at reading, or sensing, your…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Fast fashion, and fashion in general, is responsible for huge amounts of landfill and waste,…
KEYNOTES AND PANELS: SEE AND SHAPE THE FUTURE
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 the future you’ll be able to buy Privacy as a Service, because today your…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world was already changing rapidly before COVID-19, and post COVID the rate of change…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all work hard for our money, and then we want our money to work…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The places where we live and the communities we live in help make us who…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way we work and the way we tap into skills is changing, and tat…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of Artificial Intelligence is not what you think it is… it’s not digital,…
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.
As someone who has successfully built a variety of businesses from nothing but a concept, the most recent being the…
The world we live in is changing at a dizzying rate and sectors including the energy, technology, entertainment, communications, finance,…
In today’s world there are far too many people who feel that the creative spark is just that. Over the…
Most surveys today indicate that Research and Development executives are frequently disappointed in their ideation exercises and that they commonly…
Your teams did their market research. They ran an array of consumer insight sessions. They found the customers real Need….
People keep asking me to define open innovation so it’s clear to me that plenty of confusion still reins around…
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.
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.