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FUTURE BLOGS . BOOKS . EDUCATION . FORESIGHT . KEYNOTES . PODCASTS . POSTERS … I’VE GOT YOU COVERED .
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 By imposing a tax on the amount of carbon used to manufacture products that the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to training and exercise do we need humans? This gym doesn’t think…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What is buildings could regenerate the environment and leave nothing behind when they’re gone? …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Training and running giant AI models like GPT4 and BARD use huge amounts of energy,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting to the point where it’s consuming more energy than small countries, and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s AI will impact up to 80% of jobs, allegedly, and AGI is much much…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Matter has to be come from somewhere, and now scientists have just observed it happen…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many people query the ethics of using foetal bovine serum to grow lab based meats,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF These renders are so real and interactive that you could be fooled into thinking they’re…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everyone benefits from exercising but not everyone can, or wants to, so could this be…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By moving from LLMs to LBMs, a completely new kind of AI model, Toyota might…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bone loss in space is a major problem, but a new synthetic molecule might just…
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 Over the next twenty years the transportation industry will see more change than it has…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The pace of disruption is accelerating, and many argue that today is the slowest we…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Defence forms a large part of every sovereign nations capability and identity, so it’s little…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many experts say that creative machines are still decades away, and that machines that can…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more industries look to engage their new digital, omni-channel customers in new ways they…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of personalisation is intertwined with the future of privacy, and as we head…
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.