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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 We think computers have to be big, but in fact they can be nanoscale, and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you never had to use a network to transmit data but could teleport…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many say Moore’s Law is dying, and it is under stress but perhaps not dying,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if we could make organisms including humans resistant to genetic engineering technology? Maybe we…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Using text and images to generate decent video is hard, but there are now more…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine being able to wipe out deadly viruses by using themselves against themselves … that’s…
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 Creativity has long been thought of as being uniquely human, but that same human creativity…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today there are hundreds of exponential technologies arriving, and many of those are already having…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are increasingly reaching the point where we can disrupt global industries within the space…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today we can see technologies that will help us eliminate up to 60 percent of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The companies and startups of the future will be very different from today’s, so during…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future is emerging faster and is more complex than many of us can imagine…
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.
It’s a hot day, one of the rare few in London when I meet David Wilde, Essex County Council’s esteemed…
At first, stepping into Oxford University’s Saïd Business School’s campus, opposite Oxford train station is like stepping into an experience….
Marston’s, a 200 year old company operates over 2,000 pubs in the UK and while it’d be easy to categorise…
Despite having over 26,500 employees operating out of more than 34 countries in five continents, I’d suggest that Belron® is…
With 85 global websites, over 25 million app downloads and 12 million user generated reviews Hotels.com, an Expedia Inc. brand, is one…
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.