ChatGPT listed as an author on research papers and scientists disapprove

ChatGPT listed as an author on research papers and scientists disapprove

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the text writing bot ChatGPT takes on the world more people are getting unhappy about it and now it’s the scientists turn.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...

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Researchers have found a way to store solar energy for over 18 years

Researchers have found a way to store solar energy for over 18 years

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to store solar energy in batteries for a long time opens up some interesting battery opportunities …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....

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Innovative floating deep sea vertical axis turbines to hit Norway’s coast in 2023

Innovative floating deep sea vertical axis turbines to hit Norway’s coast in 2023

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating a vertical axis wind turbine this company believes it can create some of the most powerful and efficient wind turbines on the planet.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...

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Futurist Keynote, Sweden: The Future of Retail and E-Commerce

Futurist Keynote, Sweden: The Future of Retail and E-Commerce

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF During this keynote session with Ikea, Volvo, and others keynote speaker Matthew Griffin takes the audience on a journey into the near future to explore the future of retail and E-Commerce and answers the question: “What’s next?”   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...

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DHL and Volvo partner up to deliver autonomous hub to hub trucking

DHL and Volvo partner up to deliver autonomous hub to hub trucking

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Self driving trucks are coming, and now they’re coming just that little bit faster to change the industry … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. You’ve...

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Swedish firm creates the world’s first fully recycled Lithium Ion battery

Swedish firm creates the world’s first fully recycled Lithium Ion battery

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In ten years time the world will be inundated with old EV Lithium Ion batteries – and now we have a way to recycle them.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...

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New smart kinetic clothing records and plays back your breathing

New smart kinetic clothing records and plays back your breathing

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you’re training AI can help you improve your technique, and now it can help you get your breathing right too.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote,...

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Volvo uses the world’s first green steel to make itself a dump truck

Volvo uses the world’s first green steel to make itself a dump truck

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Heavy industry accounts for 7% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and now the industry’s going zero emissions.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The world’s...

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Swedish company unveils the world’s first carbon free “Green steel”

Swedish company unveils the world’s first carbon free “Green steel”

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Industries like the steel industry are among the world’s most polluting, but new technologies and techniques are making it greener.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The world’s first customer delivery of...

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Tail light packing helmet is powered by nothing more than ambient light

Tail light packing helmet is powered by nothing more than ambient light

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Up until now being able to generate enough electricity from very low levels of ambient light has been difficult and almost impossible, this material could eliminate the need for batteries in products.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...

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Sweden starts breaking up with cash as government starts trials of digital E-Krona

Sweden starts breaking up with cash as government starts trials of digital E-Krona

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cash use is falling in many countries, so governments are now starting to trial fully digital alternatives.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Cash is dying as more and more people use contactless payment systems and digital cash,...

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This AI will design your house, over and over again

This AI will design your house, over and over again

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Architects are faced with lots of monotonous tasks, and this new AI tool will help eliminate alot of the grunt work.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently, I discussed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a new breed...

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Future quantum computers could crack 2048 bit RSA encryption in 8 hours

Future quantum computers could crack 2048 bit RSA encryption in 8 hours

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF All of our vital communications and data are encrypted, and powerful quantum computers will be able to crack almost all of it.   Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Many people, quite rightly, worry that quantum computers will be able...

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Scientists create a liquid fuel that can store the Sun’s energy for 18 years

Scientists create a liquid fuel that can store the Sun’s energy for 18 years

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the number of solar energy installations increase storing the energy they produce, so it can be released to the grid when the Sun goes in, is still holding the industry back from world domination.   Recently renewable energy became the cheapest form of energy...

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Breakthrough carbon fiber battery could usher in batteryless electric vehicles

Breakthrough carbon fiber battery could usher in batteryless electric vehicles

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our understanding of how to turn mundane objects and materials into batteries increases in the future anything and everything could be a battery.   As I discussed a little while ago Carbon Fiber is going through its own little revolution, firstly it can now...

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By 2021 this AI could help us talk to dolphins

By 2021 this AI could help us talk to dolphins

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence can already translate hundreds of languages but now we might be seeing the first signs of the creation of the world’s first Universal Translator.   We’ve been using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help us develop facial recognition systems that we can use on...

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3D printed cartilage breakthrough offers millions of suffers new hope

3D printed cartilage breakthrough offers millions of suffers new hope

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cartilage is unique in that it doesn’t grow back, leaving Arthritis patients, and cancer and injury victims with no option but surgery, now though 3D bioprinting offers them all new hope.   Loosing a part of your body, such as an ear, knee or a...

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Sweden wants to become the worlds first cashless society

Sweden wants to become the worlds first cashless society

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With the use of cash diminishing around the world Governments are beginning to prepare themselves for a cashless future.   The use of cash in Sweden has dived by 40% since 2009 when the central bank decided to rescind the country’s highest denomination banknote and now, faced...

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Scientists have created the worlds first artificial neuron

Scientists have created the worlds first artificial neuron

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Neurons play a crucial role in helping ensure our bodies run smoothly, but when they’re damaged, or degrade there can be dire consequences, from dementia to quadriplegia, this breakthrough might let us restore, or even enhance, neurological functions.   Researchers have built the world’s first...

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Breakthrough lets researchers turn plants into electric circuits and connect them to the grid

Breakthrough lets researchers turn plants into electric circuits and connect them to the grid

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to turn plants into electric circuits could pave the way for a whole variety of biologically inspired electronics.   A team of Swedish botanists and electrical engineers have unveiled a new method for growing and powering conductive wires inside living plants and integrating them with...

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