311 Institute codex
How fast is the technology landscape really changing?
Nothing stands still and everything accelerates. The annual Griffin Emerging Technology Starbursts are a quick way to visualise these changes and picture their impact on business, culture and society.
In short
The Emerging Technology Starburst Collection is a 41-page codex by Matthew Griffin, Founder, President and Futurist of the 311 Institute, that brings every annual Griffin Emerging Technology Starburst from 2017 to 2025 into one place. The downloadable fifth edition, published in January 2023, reviews the 2017 to 2023 editions in turn, so you can see how the technologies, categories and timelines changed from year to year; the 2024 and 2025 editions have their own pages.
Who it is for: It is for strategy, innovation and technology leaders, investors and policy makers who want a fast, visual view of which emerging technologies matter and how quickly they are maturing.
A history of the future
As the rate of change accelerates, keeping track of every new technology and its knock-on effects gets harder. The Starbursts give you a quick bird's-eye view of the emerging technologies re-shaping our world.
This codex is the museum of the future: instead of filing old Starbursts away, it puts every edition on display so you can see how many powerful technologies are emerging, and how hard it is to keep up with them.
Each annual Starburst looks ahead from its own year and reviews the year before it. Today the live Starburst Centre follows 1,375 emerging technologies and 1,085 trends, updated as they change. See them all on the Starbursts page.
What you will explore
Every annual Starburst from 2017 to 2025, on display side by side.
How many technologies each edition followed, its categories, its timeline and what changed.
How to read technology maturity across categories and combine it with the other codexes.
Key findings
Explore the Starbursts
The collection runs from 2017 to 2025. The downloadable fifth edition (January 2023) reviews the 2017 to 2023 editions; every edition, including 2024 and 2025, has its own page, and the Starbursts page holds the posters and the live Starburst Centre.
Bring the Starbursts to your organisation
Book Matthew Griffin for a keynote session, executive briefing session or foresight workshop session built on the Starbursts. Or start with a free 15-minute expert call.
Questions and answers
It is a codex by Matthew Griffin that collects every annual Griffin Emerging Technology Starburst from 2017 to 2025. The downloadable fifth edition, published in January 2023, reviews each edition from 2017 to 2023: how many technologies it showed, its technology categories, how far its timeline reached and which technologies were promoted or demoted.
A Starburst is a one-page visual map of the most promising emerging technologies, grouped into technology categories and placed by their estimated maturity on a timeline. It is designed to let you see quickly how mature each technology is likely to be across different categories.
The collection runs from 2017 to 2025. The downloadable PDF is the fifth edition, published in January 2023, and reviews the seven Starbursts from 2017 to 2023; the 2024 and 2025 editions have their own pages and posters on the Starbursts page. Each annual Starburst looks ahead from its own year and reviews the year before it.
Each edition from 2017 to 2025 showed between 167 and 169 emerging technologies, each with an addressable market value of over $500 billion. Today the live Starburst Centre follows 1,375 emerging technologies and 1,085 trends.
The codex recommends combining the Starbursts with other codexes in the Codex of the Future series, such as the Annual Trends Codex and How to Build Exponential Enterprises. Together they give you the frameworks and information to model future scenarios, assess their impact on your organisation and develop new products, roadmaps and strategies.
The codex is free to download from this page after a short form. It is a 41-page PDF, the fifth edition published in January 2023, written by Matthew Griffin, Founder, President and Futurist of the 311 Institute, as part of his Codex of the Future series.
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