The Blood Battery: How Your Tesla Runs on Zimbabwe's Tears
Your green EV revolution is powered by 22-year-olds dying in African mines while Chinese companies pocket billions. Still feeling eco-friendly?
Read MoreDr. Mark van Rijmenam is a strategic futurist known as The Digital Speaker. He globally ranked as the #1 futurist. He stands at the forefront of the digital age and lives and breathes cutting-edge technologies to inspire Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide. As an optimistic dystopian, he has a deep understanding of AI, blockchain, the metaverse, and other emerging technologies, blending academic rigor with technological innovation.
His pioneering efforts include the world’s first TEDx Talk in VR in 2020. In 2023, he further pushed boundaries when he delivered a TEDx talk in Athens with his digital twin, delving into the complex interplay of AI and our perception of reality. In 2024, he launched a digital twin of himself, offering interactive, on-demand conversations via text, audio, or video in 29 languages, thereby bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds – another world’s first.
Dr. Van Rijmenam is a prolific author and has written more than 1,200 articles and five books in his career. As a corporate educator, he is celebrated for his candid, independent, and balanced insights. He is also the founder of Futurwise, which focuses on elevating global knowledge on crucial topics like technology, healthcare, and climate change by providing high-quality, hyper-personalized, and easily digestible insights from trusted sources.
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Your green EV revolution is powered by 22-year-olds dying in African mines while Chinese companies pocket billions. Still feeling eco-friendly?
Read MoreMcDonald's trusted an AI chatbot with 64 million job applications. Hackers needed just six keystrokes to access them all.
Read More7.5 million artists thought digital poison would protect their work from AI. Cambridge just proved why regulation beats technology every time.
Read MoreBig Tech claims AI deregulation means American innovation wins. But to me this sounds less like patriotic optimism or and more clever PR to mask a dangerous power grab.
Read MoreAI is accelerating rapidly, doubling its capabilities every 7 months. By 2030, these AI systems could reliably finish tasks like starting companies, improving themselves, or writing novels, work typically taking humans months, in just hours or days.
Read MoreWhile the U.S. is drilling harder than ever, China is exporting the future, one battery, solar panel, and nuclear reactor at a time.
Read MoreYou didn’t post that photo, Meta might still use it. Your camera roll is now a potential training set, whether you hit “share” or not.
Read MoreStephen Hawking typed at one word per minute, now a paralyzed man can speak near-instantly, straight from his brain. Are we finally digitizing human voice itself?
Read MoreDenmark just did what Silicon Valley won’t, give people legal ownership of their own face, voice, and body. Should deepfakes now come with a copyright strike?
Read MoreA new study claims today’s leading AI models outperform humans at understanding emotions...
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