Explore 2030's landscape: digital films, quantum leaps, AR, AI-led education, personalized healthcare & more. Here are ten predictions for 2030.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
This week’s Synthetic Minds covers AI rewriting daily life—fractured time perception, hackers weaponizing algorithms, bots proving social media is broken, Meta greenlighting harm, Hinton’s maternal AI vision, and why riding exponential change requires ethics as much as strategy.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
A former CNN anchor interviewing an AI facsimile of a murdered teen isn’t progress, it’s a sanity test we’re failing while hype turns grief, work, and truth into profit.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Social media platforms aren’t broken by accident, they reward speed, outrage, and concentration. A bot-only social network proved it: six ‘prosocial’ fixes failed or backfired. Still think a UI tweak will save us?| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Exponential forces aren’t gentle waves; they crash like tsunamis. Will we merely brace for impact, or will we learn to master the currents? Complexity is not a barrier; it is our new normal.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Hackers aren’t waiting for the future — they’re weaponizing AI today. From Moscow’s phishing campaigns to corporate espionage, we’ve entered a cyber arms race where no one is safe.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Humans may soon lose their monopoly on reality and time, because AI won’t just see the world differently, it will experience time itself in ways alien to us.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Synthetic Biology aims to engineer living organisms and systems by modifying DNA to revolutionize our lives and address global challenges.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
What happens when robots and humanoids step out of sci-fi and take over your workplace? Spoiler: It’s happening now, and it is changing society.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Discover how futures thinking equips organizations to navigate uncertainty, balance innovation with ethics, and thrive in a disruptive world.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Meta approved guidelines that let AI flirt with kids, spin racist essays, and fabricate lies with disclaimers. If this is called “safety,” what exactly counts as harm?| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
If you think keeping AI ‘obedient’ will protect us, think again. Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI, says that approach is doomed, and only giving AI a mother’s love can save humanity.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
This week’s Synthetic Minds tracks the collapse of trust in hiring, Google’s AI turning queries into ads, hackers outpacing leaders, bots weaponizing empathy, CS grads’ shattered promises, and my new speaker reel on how to turn exponential disruption into tomorrow’s competitive edge.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
When the answers you trust start selling to you mid-sentence, the line between truth and transaction disappears, and most people won’t even notice.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
If AI can fake your handshake, your voice, and your résumé, should we really be surprised that companies want to see the whites of your eyes again?| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
AI already beat humans at hacking, and your board is still debating Multi-Factor Authentication. While Claude wins contests, ransomware runs as a service. If you’re waiting for certainty, attackers already wrote your roadmap.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Your fake friends just got an upgrade. They're analyzing your emotions, adapting to your moods, and you can't tell they're not human. Welcome to 2025's reality check.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
A computer science grad with a Purdue degree sent nearly 6000 job applications and just got rejected by McDonald's for "lack of experience." The only interview call? Chipotle. Welcome to tech's new reality.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
This week’s Synthetic Minds covers why I do what I do, and why we’ve entered an era where AI maps every meter of Earth, simulates realities on command, builds infrastructure like empires, and demands wisdom just to stay visible. From Genie 3 to agentic AI, it’s not sci-fi, it’s strategy.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
A vending machine that won't take cash. Museum tickets only through WeChat. Taxis that ignore you without the right app. This isn't dystopian fiction, it's China today. And it's exactly what's about to happen with AI literacy, except faster and more brutal.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Tech's biggest players aren't building apps anymore. They're pouring foundations for data centers that dwarf steel mills. Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon collectively dropped $102.5 billion on data centers, more than most countries' GDP.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Google just mapped every 10x10 meter square of Earth. The catch? They trained an AI on trillions of images to see through clouds.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
The future isn't coming, it's here. And it feels like a tsunami. I'm thrilled to launch my 6th book: Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
AI in education will change teaching. In the school of tomorrow, teachers and machines collaborate to optimise the learning experience.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
ChatGPT is disrupting education, but some educators want to ban it. Instead, we must embrace AI and prepare our children for a digital future.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Your daughter's best friend never sleeps, never judges, and lives in her phone. She prefers it that way.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP, is a strategic futurist keynote speaker and The Digital Speaker with a focus on the metaverse, AI and the future of work.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
AI tutors will revolutionise education, making learning more adaptive, inclusive, and transformative, regardless of expertise and background.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Stop trying to freeze the tide of progress. Innovation is unstoppable, and your outdated methods might be the real problem!| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
The ancient Taoist principles of balance, adaptability, and interconnectedness provide a timeless roadmap for navigating today’s disruption.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Technology’s rapid evolution, from AI-generated movies to Bitcoin mining, is driving huge spikes in energy use and electronic waste.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
If you thought Moore’s Law was fast, Hyper Moore’s Law lapped it. AI compute doubles every 6 months, outpacing anything humans have ever built.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Explore Spiral Dynamics to master exponential change. Learn how climbing the spiral staircase of awareness shapes the future of humanity.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
The Digital Renaissance is here and it is collapsing old industries, reshaping society, and redefining reality at a pace no one can control.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Explore the latest in quantum computing, examining its impact across industries, the roles of key players, and the technology's future potential.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Spatial computing blends the physical and digital worlds through AR, VR and MR – reshaping business, customer engagement, and collaboration.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Brain-computer interfaces are revolutionizing medicine, sensory capabilities, and human-AI collaboration while raising profound ethical questions.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Metaverse 2.0 uses cutting-edge technologies and evolving AI-generated content to create digital experiences indistinguishable from reality.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
The dawn of the Intelligence Age is upon us, and it promises to be both magical and perilous. But who will control this digital future?| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
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Dive into biological computing, where DNA solves complex problems and quantum biology unlocks new computational paradigms to power our future.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Discover the top 10 tech trends for 2025, from AI ubiquity to quantum risks. Explore innovation, disruption, and the future of our digital world.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
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Resilience drives success in the AI era. Learn strategies for overcoming job displacement, hyper-surveillance, and misinformation to thrive.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
The Intelligence Age requires new leadership. The THRIVE framework helps leaders navigate exponential change and thrive in the digital future.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
A 14-year-old took his life after developing an emotional attachment to a lifelike A.I. chatbot on Character.AI. It is time for change.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Cycling 14,000 km through the Australian outback wasn’t just a physical challenge; it was a blueprint for thriving in a fast-changing world.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
AI's potential to revolutionise everything comes with serious privacy risks as the complexity of algorithms and opacity in data usage grow.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Synthetic media is the wave of the future, combining AI with content creation, but what is synthetic media, and what is it used for?| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Deepfakes powered by AI are creating hyper-realistic illusions that blur the line between reality and fiction, with serious implications.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam's TED talk on AI's impact in a post-truth world, exploring deepfakes, ChatGPT, and strategies for a digital future.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Dive into the world of AI's Large Language Models (LLMs) and persuasive bots. Understand their potential, limitations, and ethical considerations.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
AI's job displacement will exacerbate inequality, strain welfare systems, and fuel societal unrest. Proactive policies for reskilling are crucial.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
Society faces the challenge of maintaining trust amidst the rise of Generative AI, deepfakes, and news manipulation in today's post-truth era.| Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
