The 2025 Griffin Annual Emerging Technology Starburst, 2025 to 2075

In this year’s Starburst, which extends to 2075 and displays 167 of the world’s most promising emerging technologies, each with an addressable market value of at least $500 Billion spread across 13 categories, I have promoted 13 new emerging technologies that weren’t in last years’ edition which makes the number of new breakthroughs in 2024 look quite average when compared to some previous years.

While the Starbursts might look visually appealing they have a more practical purpose which is to help governments, individuals, and organisations alike envision and predict new disruptive threats to their countries, industries, and companies. And, furthermore, when used in conjunction with our How to Build Exponential Enterprises Codex and our first of a kind ExPLORER Innovation Framework, they can be used to help organisations accelerate the development of innovative new policies, products, and services.

By creating and publishing these Starbursts I also hope they help spark people’s imagination, and demonstrate to us all, young and old, rich and poor, that nothing is impossible. For example, this year alone, in a sea awash with sci-fi like breakthroughs, unexpected surprises, and all manner of newsworthy new concepts this is just a sliver of what I saw: After almost a decade of predicting it finally the FCC approved the first 5G satellite to smartphone services launch with SpaceX and T-Mobile, I also saw the first dry run of the fastest cross border payments system which completes transactions in a staggering 60 seconds, and then on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) front there were huge numbers of firsts. We saw the first Agentic AI's being released, and then being used to create entire human-like civilisations in Minecraft and being used to autonomously hack military grade systems, AI's beating humans again in dogfights, including a Mach 11 simulated dogfight in China, AI bots bullying one another and going absolutely psycho while not only creating money but also pumping junk crypto memecoins to valuations of over $600 Billion. Then, of course, again predicted for a decade or so we saw the first AI coders get jobs at the likes of Amazon and Google, AI getting to work creating synthetic genomes, running a UK NHS clinic better than humans, AI scientists, autonomous AI's designing new autonomous AI, and so much more.

We also finally saw the much lauded "GPS for the human body" Atlas of Cells launch, Bacterial displays running Doom, the first Bio-Circular Datacenter opening in France, Brain computing platforms being scaled up, drugs that regrow human teeth, the use of Extinction Genes to render viruses harmless, genetic engineering being combined with next generation Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI) to beat cognitive transmission records, software based GPSless drone navigation systems, Graphene semiconductors, as well as the scaling up of Huawei's Nvidia GPU competitor.

Flicking back to BMI we also saw the first human experience Human-BMI Cognitive compartmentalisation which took his multi-tasking skill levels into sci-fi territory, the rise of the Humanoid robots race, mega drones from China, the first photosynthesising animals, even more quantum radars that render US stealth obsolete, the first reasoning AI's, solar materials that exceed 190% energy efficiencies, synthetic content getting ready for prime time as we saw more videos producers ditching their old tools, two people communicate via lucid dreams, China developing new unhackable Mechanical Metamaterial data storage technologies, URLs that hid Malware, and the opening of the world's largest Hypergravity facility, again in China ... and of course hundreds more.

It's no understatement, therefore, to say that I look forwards to seeing what amazing new technology concepts will emerge in 2025.

Signing off for now in traditional fashion if I could give you one piece of advice from all my years of being a “futurist,” it would still be be forget what you know and get rid of your preconceptions of what’s possible, keep learning, and keep exploring. And if my Starbursts have left you wanting to learn more about our collective future and deep future then dive into the wormhole and explore this site and all its awesome content, most of which will push your thinking to the limits.

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MATTHEW GRIFFIN.

Founder