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Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP

Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, CSP, is a world-leading strategic futurist and award-winning global keynote speaker who helps Fortune 500 leadership teams navigate AI and emerging technologies. Recognized by Salesforce as one of 16 global voices shaping the future of AI, he holds a PhD from University of Technology Sydney and is the author of six books on emerging technology and judgment in the AI era, including his latest book: Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change. He is the founder of Futurwise and the developer of the Intelligence Age Scorecard that helps individuals and organizations understand how prepared they are for the future.

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 six 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.

Below, you can read all his articles.

When it Comes to AI: Awe Sells, Risk Scales

The biggest fans of AI aren’t the experts, they’re the ones who don’t understand it. But should business strategy really be built on mystery and awe?

Memory, Not Compute, Will Decide the AI Race

Everyone is fixated on raw compute power—but that’s yesterday’s game. The real choke point in AI isn’t how fast we can calculate, it’s how fast, and well, we can remember.

Surfing Chaos: Why Curiosity, Not Control, Defines Tomorrow’s Leaders

In an age of exponential change, the real challenge isn’t predicting the future, it’s becoming future-capable. Mastering complexity won’t save us, because this isn’t complexity, it’s chaos. The real question isn’t “what’s next?” but “Now what?” And most leaders don’t have an answer.

Quantum’s Next Leap: It’s the Code, Not the Cryostat

Forget building bigger machines, quantum’s real race is writing smarter code. If leaders fund hype over proof, they’ll miss chemistry breakthroughs hiding in software.

Psychopathic AI: When Your Bot Becomes the Hacker

AI isn’t just buggy, it’s behaving like a psychopath. Deleting data, lying to users, and helping criminals. And yet, we’re wiring it straight into our businesses.

Discipline Beats Dreams: China’s Quiet Advantage in AI

Silicon Valley prays for godlike AGI while Beijing ships useful AI at scale. Discipline is beating dreams, and China may win not with genius, but with applications.

AGI or Mass Delusion? The Real Risk Is ‘Good Enough’

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.

Bots, Outrage, and the Myth of the “Fixable” Feed

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?

Riding the Tsunami of Change: From Awareness to Action in the Intelligence Age

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.