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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.

Biological Computing: Harnessing Life's Code to Power the Future

Imagine a world where computers think like humans and data storage spans millennia, not years. Welcome to the dawn of biological computing!

Synthetic Minds: From biocomputing to screenless AI

This week's Synthetic Minds covers the groundbreaking intersection of DNA and tech in biological computing, posing new ethical questions. Discover AI's personal touch with GPTs, Humane's AI Pin, Meta's privacy cost, TikTok's news drama, and the ruliad's cosmic role according t...

A microscopic marvel: editing life's tiny alphabets

The marvel of CRISPR technology unveils a realm of precision microbiome editing, allowing for a transformative collaboration between humans and the microscopic microbial world to address monumental challenges like disease and climate change. This scientific symphony, orchestra...

Nightshade: a digital paintbrush of defiance 🎨

In a vivid stroke of resistance against unauthorised AI exploitation, a novel tool named Nightshade emerges, enabling artists to invisibly alter pixels in their artwork. This subtle revolt seeds chaos in AI models trained on such 'poisoned' data, turning cars into cows and dog...

Holograms reborn: mere 2D snapshots leap into the 3D realm.

In a striking blend of simplicity and innovation, researchers have pioneered a deep-learning method that morphs standard 2D photos into enthralling 3D holograms, rendering the cumbersome traditional holography techniques a relic of the past. This groundbreaking method, a trife...

Not posting public images of your children would be very wise.

A sinister reality unfolds as AI-generated child sexual abuse images, nearing 3,000 in count, breach UK law, sending ripples of fear across the digital realm. The Internet Watch Foundation warns of an alarming surge in such nefarious use of AI, with criminals concocting harrow...

A quantum leap, atom by atom.

Atom Computing ushers in a new era with a quantum computer boasting 1180 qubits, over double the capacity of its nearest rival, employing a novel design of neutral atoms corralled by lasers, which promises easier scaling up of the system. With its qubits showcasing longer cohe...

Homomorphic Encryption: Unlocking the Cipher of Privacy

Homomorphic Encryption emerges as a groundbreaking technology in digital privacy, enabling complex computations on encrypted data without needing decryption, thereby securing personal messages, financial transactions, and advancing secure cloud computing and confidential data ...

Synthetic Minds: protecting your privacy in the age of AI

This week's Synthetic Minds covers the ground-breaking nature of Homomorphic Encryption, quantum strides in computing, and the eerie emergence of AI-generated illicit imagery. In addition, it covers the rise of holograms and the microscopic marvel of CRISPR.

The fabric of Innovation: a new era in fashion technology.

Amidst the technological grandeur displayed at Adobe's annual Max conference, Project Primrose emerged as a remarkable nexus of fashion and digital ingenuity. This endeavour unveils an interactive dress, transcending the conventional fabric narrative and imbuing it with flexib...