WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If people can walk and travel around warehouses faster they can get alot more work done, and companies love that.   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. Shift Robotics aimed to get folks walking faster back in 2022, with a Kickstarter project for strap-on powered wheels called Moonwalkers. And now, in an attempt to get us all to walk faster and, in this case, make ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if increasingly death wasn’t the final frontier? A new industry is trying to make people immortal both physically and virtually.   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. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found a host of uses since it exploded into the public consciousness with the release of ChatGPT last year. From drafting essays for student ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sometimes kids just don’t want to go to school, and now in Japan they have a robot that can attend school for them …   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. Feeling anxious about going to school? Well you might love or loathe this latest experiment after a school in Japan announced it thinks its cracked the problem. According to the Japanese newspaper The ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this podcast Futurist Matthew Griffin and Ben Wright explore the future of AI, really weird AI’s, the future of business and money, and lots of other topics!   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. Firstly, thank you to Ben Wright host of the hit show the Effective Advisor podcast, for inviting me down to Barclays Banks’ startup incubator at Eagle House in Southa ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this podcast Futurist Matthew Griffin explores how today’s increasingly complex and disruptive world is changing how leaders think about the future and their organisations, and discusses the mindset and strategies they can use to navigate this complex world successfully.   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. Firstly, thank you to Maureen Metcalf and the team at ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session held in London Futurist and trends expert Matthew Griffin examines hundreds of global trends to determine their impact on the people and economy of the UK.   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. Firstly, thank you to Marcelino Castrillo, CEO at Shawbrook Bank, a London based private bank that advises over half a million customers on all aspe ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s are more human than you might think. And that’s a big issue.   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. Just like humans it seems that Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT will cheat, deceive, and “lie” to you if you “stress” them out, even if they were built to be transparent, a new study shows. And it’s just the latest example of how increasin ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) start taking off around the world we’re going to need a network to connect them all, and SWIFT wants to be that network.   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. Global bank messaging network SWIFT, which many years ago was afraid that it was going to be made obsolete thanks to technologies such as blockchain, is planning a n ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An unresolved public key cryptography hack has experts panicking about a Chinese quantum computer that’s powerful enough to crack Western encryption.   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. A cyber security official at the US State Department had noticed something unusual. An internal IT security system, nicknamed “Big Yellow Taxi,” had flagged unusual activity on i ..read more

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future as AI figures out human emotions this could be used to create trustful AI’s that manipulate us all.   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. As we see Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerging increasingly we’re going to be talking to and with the computer systems that are all around us, so having computer systems that understand human emotio ..read more