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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 When humans are eventually taken out of the loop on “Kill decisions” warfare will be…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Using natural language to talk to the machines around us will revolutionise human-machine communications. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As EEG devices get smaller suddenly you’ll see more devices emerging that can read your…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Noone likes brain surgery but to kill and extract tumors and cure other neurological disorders…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the next 20 years airline passenger numbers are expected to double, and security is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Atomic communications systems are very odd, resilient, ideal in times of war, and rely on…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF LiON batteries have a variety of social and environmental issues ranging from they explode and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Marc Andreesen is one of the US’s leading VC’s so what he says and thinks…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF LiON batteries have their issues, and as everyone uses more of them more researchers are…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to translate what people are saying it – along with their accents and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Deepfakes and fake data, which can then be ingested and analysed by AI trading systems,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If we can predict future covid-19 mutations then we could possibly create vaccines ahead of…
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 The pace of change, and disruption, is accelerating. In this presentation I show just how…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future will have a huge impact on the future of communities, both good and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a risk that humanity is under estimating the impact that AI will have…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the next decade the world of FMCG will be irrevocably altered by the new…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Algorithmic traders, like many of us, have a nascent reliance on being able to trust…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The effect that climate change and pollution is having on our society and wellbeing is…
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.
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.