< PreviousCODEX CONTENTS Seventh Edition published January 2024. To request this Codex in an alternative language please contact the author. 28 ...WELCOME FROM THE AUTHOR 31...INTRODUCTION 38...USING THIS CODEX This Codex contains information on hundreds of the most impactful exponential technologies, this section helps you understand them quicker. 42...THE MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE Our annual Starbursts give you a quick birdseye view of the latest Megatrends and Exponential Technologies re-shaping our world, and this section shows them all. 60...DECODING THE EXPONENTIAL FUTURE Learn how to see and understand the future. 64...DECODING EXPONENTIAL DISRUPTION Disruption is everywhere and the status quo is changing faster than ever, learn how to spot it and master it. 74...BUILDING EXPONENTIAL ENTERPRISES Learn how to build your own disruptive Exponential Enterprise. 86...EXPONENTIAL TECH COMBINATIONS Individual technologies are often useless by themselves, it’s only when they are combined with other technologies that they transform our world. 92...THE ACCELERATING RATE OF CHANGE Learn about technology S-Curves and the accelerating rate of global business, cultural, and societal change. 104...READINESS LEVELS ...TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVELS When it comes to assessing the maturity of new technologies many companies swear by TRL but what are they? ...MANUFACTURING READINESS LEVELS Learn more about MRL and why companies use this scale to assess the viability of manufacturing new products at scale pre to commercialisation.110...TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY DIVES Learn about the hundreds of exponential technologies re-shaping our world. 112...ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ...3D Bio-Printing ...3D Holographic Printing ...3D Printing ...3D Ultrasonic Printing ...4D Bio-Printing ...4D Printing ...Atomic Manufacturing ...Bio-Conversion ...Bio-Manufacturing ...Bio-Reactors ...Molecular Assemblers ...Multi-Material 3D Printing ...Nano-Manufactring ...Rapid Liquid Printing ...Space Based Manufacturing ...Xolographic 3D Printing 130...BIOTECH ...Anti-Ageing Drugs ...Artificial Body Parts ...Bio-Electronic Medicine ...Bio-Hybrid Organs ...CAR-T Cell Therapy ...Cellular Recorders ...Chimeras ...Chromosome Engineering ...Contagious Vaccines ...CRISPR Gene Editing ...Cryogenics ...Electrogenetics ...Gene Drives ...Genetic Firewalls ...Genetic Kill Switches ...High Resolution FMRI ...Human Hybrid Immune Systems ...In Vivo Gene Therapy ...Inhalable RNA Therapy ...Injectable Neuroprosthetics ...Labs on Chips ...Living Pharmacies ...Magnetic Wormholes ...Mechano-Genetic Stimulation ...Medical Tricorders ...Memory Editing ...Nano-Medicine ...Neuro-Prosthetics ...Neurology ...Organoids ...Personalised Medicine ...Phage Therapy ... Predictive Vaccines ...Rapid Gene Sequencing ...Regenerative Medicine ...Resurrection ...Self-Deleting Genes ...Semi-Synthetic Cells...Smart Drugs ...Smart Medicine ...Stem Cell Technology ...Synthetic Blood ...Synthetic Cells ...Synthetic DNA ...Synthetic Lifeforms ...Synthetic Proteins ...Tissue Engineering ...Tissue Nanotransfection ...Xenotransplantation 182...COMPUTE ...Analogue Computing ...Biological Computing ...Blockchain ...Chemical Computing ...Distributed Computing ...DNA Computing ...Earable Computing ...Edge Computing ...Exascale Computing ...Federated Supercomputing ...Intelligence Processing Units ...Ionic Computing ...Liquid Computing ...Meta Computing ...Micromotes ...Minerless Blockchains ...Molecular Computing ...Nano Magnetic Computing ...Nanoscale Computing ...Neuromorphic Computing ...Organic Computing ...Photonic Computing ...Pneumatic Computing ...Quantum Computing ...Substrate Computing ...Terahertz Computer Chips ...UHD Rendering Engines ...Wave Computing 212...CONNECTIVITY ...5G ... 6G ...Acoustic Signalling ...Atomic Communications ...Bacterial Nano-Networks ...Bio-Molecular Communications ...Body Area Networks ...Cognitive Radio ...Delay Tolerant Networks ...Low Earth Orbit Platforms ...Low Power Wide Area Networks ...Molecular Communications ...Nil Communication ...Organic Networks ...Petabit Networks ...Pseudo Satellites ...Quantum Internet ...X-Ray Communications ...Ultra Low Frequency Comms...Visible Light Communications ...USB 4 ...WiFi 7 ...WiGig 238...ELECTRONICS ...Bio-Compatible Electronics ...Biological Electronics ...Edible Electronics ...Flexible Electronics ...Liquid Electronics ...Molecular Electronics ...Neuro-Electronics ...Printed Electronics ...Quantum Electronics ...Re-Configurable Electronics ...Self-Healing Electronics ...Transient Electronics ...Transparent Electronics 254...ENERGY ...Accelerator on a Chip ...Aqueous Batteries ...Artificial Photosynthesis ...Backscatter Energy Systems ...Bio-Batteries ...Biofuels ...Cold Fusion ...Deep Sea Energy ...Dyson Spheres ...Edible Batteries ...Electric Plants ...Electrofuels ...Flow Batteries ...Fuel Cells ...Fusion ...Gravity Batteries ...Grid Scale Energy Storage ...Laser Energy Transmission ...Lithium-Metal Batteries ...Lithium-Sulphur Batteries ...Magneto Hydro Dynamic Drives ...Mechanical Batteries ...Microwave Energy Transmission ...Molecular Energy Systems ...Molecular Motors ...Nano-Generators ...Nuclear Batteries ...Nuclear Transmutation ...Ocean Thermal Energy ...Photovoltaics ...Piezoelectric Energy Systems ...Plasma Drives ...Polymer Batteries ...Printed Batteries ...Quantum Batteries ...Quantum Energy Teleportation ...Quark Energy ...Semi-Synthetic Energy Systems ...Solar Fuels ...Solar Ovens ...Solid State Batteries...Space Based Energy Platforms ...Stellar Engines ...Structural Batteries ...Thermoelectric Generators ...Thorium Reactors ...Wireless Energy 304...GEOENGINEERING ...Archologies ...Carbon Sequestration ...Climate Engineering ...Solar Geo-Engineering ...Terraforming 312...INTELLIGENCE ...Analogue Artificial Intelligence ...Artificial General Intelligence ...Artificial Narrow Intelligence ...Artificial Super Intelligence ...Cognitive Computing ...Creative Machines ...Diffractive Neural Networks ...DNA Neural Networks ... Evolutionary Artificial Intelligence ...Explainable Artificial Intelligence ...Federated Artificial Intelligence ...Liquid Artificial Intelligence ...Machine Vision ...Mechanical Artificial Intelligence ...Meta Artificial Intelligence ...Natural Language Processing ...Open Ended AI ...Quantum Artificial Intelligence ...Quantum Language Processing ...Shallow Neural Networks ...Simulation Engines ...Swarm Artificial Intelligence ...Synthetic Biological Intelligence 338...MATERIALS ...Aerogels ...Atomic Knots ...Auto-Cannabalistic Materials ...Bio-Active Materials ...Bio-Genic Materials ...Bio-Materials ...Bio-Mineralisation ...Carbon Nanotubes ...Chromogenic Materials ...Digital Metamaterials ...Electrocaloric Materials ...Flexible Ceramics ...Graphene ...Infinitely Recyclable Plastics ...Kinetic Fabrics ...Living Materials ...Magneto Restrictive Materials ...Matter Creation ...Mega Magnets ...Metal Organic Frameworks ...Meta-Optics ...Metamaterials...Nano-Materials ...Plasmonic Paints ...Polymers ...Polymorphic Liquid Metals ...Programmable Matter ...Quantum Materials ...Reactive Materials ...Re-Programmable Inks ...Room Temp Superconductors ...Self-Healing Materials ...Smart Materials ...Sono-Inks ...Spray on Materials ...Super Alloys ...Synthetic Diamonds ...Telekinetic Metamaterials ...Telepathic Metamaterials ...Time Crystals ...Vascularised Nanocomposites 382...ROBOTICS ...Androids ...Anthrobots ... Bio-Hybrid Robots ...Crystal Robots ...Cyborgs ...DNA Robots ...Drones ...Evolutionary Robotics ...Exo-Suits ...General Purpose Robots ...Inflatable Robots ...Living Robots ...Molecular Robots ...Nano-Machines ...Neurobiotics ...Robots ...Shape Shifting Robots ...Slime Robots ...Soft Robots ...Swarm Robots ...Syncell Robots 406...SECURITY ...Anti-CRISPR Technology ...Artificial Immune Systems ...Behavioural Security ...Binary Visualisation ...Biometrics ...Constitutional Artificial Intelligence ...Containment Algorithms ...Cyber-Biosecurity ...Data Teleportation ...DNA Encryption ...Hackproof Code ...Homomorphic Encryption ...Mechanical Metamaterials ...Morpheus Computing Platform ...Neural Network Watermarking ...One Time Programs ...Post Quantum Cryptography ...Quantum Cryptography...Quantum Fingerprinting ...Quantum Safe Blockchains ...Robo-Hackers ...Telepathic Cyber Defense ...Ultrasound Force Fields ...Zero Knowledge Proof 432...SENSORS ...Acoustic Cameras ...Biometric Sensors ...Biomimetic Sensors ...Bio-Robotic Sensors ...Electro-Mechanical Sensors ...Event Based Sensors ...Hyperspectral Sensors ...Lenseless Cameras ...Living Sensors ...Nano-Antennae ...Nano-Sensors ...Neutron Detectors ...Optical Bio-Sensors ...Photonic Sensors ...Ptychography ...Quantum Sensors ...Rydberg Sensors ...Sapphire Sensors ...Smart Dust ...Spray on Sensors ...Terahertz Imaging 456...USER INTERFACES ...8K Displays ...11K Displays ...16K Displays ...Affective Computing ...AI Symbiosis ...Augmented Reality ...Avatars ...Behavioural Computing ...Bots ...Digital Humans ...Electrogenetic Interfaces ...Flexible Displays ...Generative User Interfaces ...Gesture Control ...Haptics ...Hive Minds ...Holodecks ...Holograms ...Holoportation ...Hypersurfaces ...Memory Downloading ...Memory Transfer ...Memory Uploading ...Mixed Reality ...Neural Interfaces ...Personalised Sound ...Screenless Display Systems ...Spray on User Interfaces ...Telepathy ...Universal Translators ...Virtual Beings...Virtual Reality ...Volumetric Displays 492...CONCLUSIONWELCOME FROM THE AUTHOR P EOPLE . P LANET . P URPOSE . P ROSPERITY THE SKELETON COAST . NAMIBIA . 19.9873° S, 13.2605° E I chose this striking image to represent this section because in many ways it’s representative of many of today’s realities: The Skeleton Coast is complex and unpredictable, but home to an amazingly adaptable ecosystem, yet it’s also representative of the stark contrast between the have and have nots, those with water and other resources and those without, our increasingly polarised society, and even the contrast between our habitable blue planet and the desolation of space. The desert and the sea are also relentless, just like the human spirit, and given the right conditions they can overcome everything in their path, just as humanity can when we work together for the benefit of everyone to create a brighter future for all of us.latest thing in biological computing wetware. As the power and potential of the technologies we’re developing and deploying increase exponentially the world is now changing at a faster rate than ever before. Not only does this put pressure on us as humans to adapt faster, but it also taxes us mentally as societal level changes that used to take generations now happen in mere months or weeks. Globally this phenomenon is leading to what I call “Futures Anxiety,” namely the fear that the future is something that’s increasingly “done to us” rather than something we can understand, navigate, and shape for our own individual and collective benefits. Via my Codex of the Future Series , which this codex is a part of, my mission therefore is to help people explore the plausible, possible, preposterous and probable futures, encourage discussion, and help shape the development of an ethical, fair, and sustainable future that benefits everyone. As they say forewarned is forearmed, and knowledge is power, so now what you do armed with this knowledge is down to you. Explore More, Matthew Griffin Founder and Futurist in Chief 29311institute.com W HEN IT comes to exploring and learning about all of the latest emerging technologies this codex is your one stop shop with hundreds showcased in exquisite detail and in a deceptively simple format that lets you master them in minutes. While this codex covers all the obvious emerging technologies you’d expect though there are hundreds more that you’ve likely never heard of - all of which are impactful in their own rights. There are even a few that likely won’t appear for a few millennia so be sure to explore Dyson Spheres and the awesome weirdness of Stellar Engines. Furthermore, because innovators never sleep this codex is constantly updated with the latest information from yours truly so I hope you enjoy exploring it. As anyone will tell you technology is a tool, a blank slate, but look around you and you’ll see how it’s transformed our world. While many people fixate on the benefits and trajectories of individual technologies though it’s only when they’re combined to create new products and services that we see their real potential to disrupt the status quo and change society. Historically technology has been little more than a dumb prosthetic, a mechanical aid, but today it’s increasingly our co-pilot and colleague. And, looking ahead to the Singularity, we can even see a point in time when we ourselves could become the What’s this symbol? Tell me and enter a draw to win $10,000 for your favourite charity.Next >