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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.

AI Pulls an All-Nighter—and Remembers It

Today’s AI forgets faster than your boss after a long weekend. But MIT’s new SEAL model just gave LLMs the gift of memory, and a dangerous taste for self-improvement.

Quantum’s Not Coming — It’s Already Hiring AI

Jensen Huang just admitted he was wrong about quantum. Now he says every supercomputer will soon include a QPU. Blink, and your “data center” becomes an AI factory for digital twins and robots.

Read Less, Know More: Launching Futurwise to Conquer Information Overload

We don’t lack content, we lack curation. The leaders of tomorrow will be those who can think clearly amid the chaos. The leaders will be those who use Futurwise to read less, but know more.

Amsterdam’s AI Welfare Dream Just Became a Nightmare

Amsterdam thought AI could end welfare bias. Instead, it proved algorithms can discriminate faster, and with greater confidence.

TikTok’s Newest Influencers Aren’t Even Human

Human influencers, beware, TikTok just launched AI influencers who don’t need lunch breaks or paychecks.

Nvidia Just Bottled the Climate

We finally have a digital twin of Earth with five-kilometer precision, and our first instinct is to help insurance companies raise premiums faster.

The Death of the Click: How AI Just Erased Journalism’s Business Model

Google didn’t just change how we search, it's quietly vaporising the internet’s biggest business model, and the collapse has already begun.

Forget Neural Nets—Axiom Wants to Build Digital Brains

Large language models talk a good game, but they can’t think on their feet, this new AI architecture might finally teach machines to act like they mean it.

IBM Just Cracked Quantum Computing. Are You Ready?

Quantum computing was once science fiction—but IBM just claimed it solved quantum’s biggest bottleneck: fault tolerance. IBM's new quantum computer, Starling, promises a leap from today’s fragile prototypes to robust, large-scale quantum machines by 2029.