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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 Compared to cargo freight air freight is horribly expensive, but what if we could change…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The half life of hard skills is now estimated to be five years which means…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An aircraft with no moving control surfaces or aerlons is as odd as it is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 62,000 people and $15 Billion helps protect JPMorgan from cyber attacks. But that’s not enough…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Paints whose colours never fade is one thing, but paint that’s lighter has all kind…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Large Language Models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 are starting to disrupt the operating system market,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if the secret to a great work life balance was a four not five…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF OpenAI might very well be trying to create a new kind of device OS that…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We can increasingly clone all of your biometrics, and your face could be next ……
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we’re able to re-compile someone’s face and features using just their DNA and this…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time we’re going to be able to break most of today’s encryption systems using…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While this is easy to fob off an AI model that knows its being tested…
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 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.
Entrepreneurs aren’t immune from harsh reality but successful businesses have a number of things in common Always be qualifying There are millions of…
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….
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.
