Hi, I’m Matt Webb.

• Building Inanimate (read more).
• Read my blog. New thoughts weekly+.

About me

I have worked with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology for over 20 years. I was MD of two London startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, and co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, where we shipped connected products and got work into the New York MoMA.

Over 2020—2022, as a consultant, I was part of the editorial team on an internal publication with the Google AI group, bridging the research and product organisations.

More… I co-wrote Mind Hacks (Amazon/Amazon UK) which has been translated into seven languages. Way back when, in 2004, I set up the BBC’s first podcast — the first national broadcaster to do so. My name is on six filed patents (three issued). From time to time I give talks.

Some things I made

My home for weird side projects and commercial collabs (not now, busy building) is Acts Not Facts.

• My AI clock got in the NY Times and 117% funded on Kickstarter. Check out Poem/1.
• An app that always points to the centre of the galaxy (read more). Get Galactic Compass from the App Store.

About the blog

I’ve been writing at Interconnected since February 2000. It’s my public notebook, and I use it to speculate about the future of technology, design and society. That description makes it sound fancier than it is. Here are the top posts of 2025 of 61 published. Topics include AI, new software interfaces, homing pigeons, what Oedipus is about, hats and so on.

Other places you can find me

• On Bluesky, X/Twitter, Insta, Mastodon, and LinkedIn.
• I write short fiction from time to time: read The search for another intelligence (2017) and The Prompt Whisperer (2022).

EMAIL matt@interconnected.org

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