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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 As Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) start taking off around the world we’re going to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An unresolved public key cryptography hack has experts panicking about a Chinese quantum computer that’s…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s are more human than you might think. And that’s a big issue. Love…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a technology innovation arms race between the US and the West and China…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The cost of training and running AI models is extraordinary, and the UK’s ARIA wants…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future as AI figures out human emotions this could be used to create…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With a $2 Trillion valuation Nvidia has proven there’s a huge market for GPU’s and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China’s new Supermind AI will be a game changer that helps the country identify new…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Previously trying to get AI to forget anything was impossible because it retained “memories” of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By using ASCII art researchers managed to bypass all the guardrails and security features of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans jailbreaking and breaking AI models is one thing, but AI’s doing it to one…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Rabbit R1 was an over night success, but it’s likely it will be short…
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 this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is and will continue to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is changing how and where…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session with the global leadership team of BuyIn futurist Matthew Griffin discusses…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session with the UK Government futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how emerging technologies are already changing every…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how new technologies and trends are fundamentally re-writing…
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.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Have you ever wondered what humanity could achieve, the challenges we could all overcome, if…
“While many people feel the rate of technological development is accelerating what they often miss is that this acceleration is…
“The future is widely misunderstood. Our ancestors expected it to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Automation and the emergence of powerful, centralised platform companies are, arguably, helping fuel wealth inequality,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of money is an emotive topic but it can be characterised by being…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this opinion piece CEX.io takes a look at the Ethereum and cryptocurrency marketplace and…
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.