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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.

One small qubit for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Google has achieved a milestone in quantum computing by demonstrating the possibility of reducing errors by increasing the number of qubits. They hope to reduce error rates to enable useful quantum algorithms by treating a group of qubits as one logical qubit.

AI is changing the field of mathematics.

As chatbots become more ubiquitous, mathematicians are exploring how AI can assist with their work beyond mere calculation. One of the questions being explored by mathematicians and computer scientists is whether machines will change math.

Only half of employees trust AI at work.

According to a survey of over 17,000 people from 17 countries. Nearly 50% of employees are wary of relying on AI decisions and recommendations, sharing information with AI tools, and AI monitoring. The majority believe humans should retain more control than AI systems in decis...

Building a Greener Future: The Importance of Sustainable AI

Sustainable AI is crucial as AI technology grows and transforms industries. AI infrastructure consumes significant power and resources, and the carbon footprint of AI is equivalent to the airline industry's emissions.

Staff cuts make it difficult to fight online misinformation.

Big Tech is cutting back on its efforts to combat misinformation online. Google, Twitter and Meta are all cutting jobs that were supposed to keep the internet clean. The reduction in efforts to tackle disinformation is raising fears that trust online will erode even further, a...

Bing and ChatGPT are full of flaws.

Bing's AI-powered search engine, developed in partnership with OpenAI, made several mistakes during its public demo, including providing incorrect financial data and making up information about a pet vacuum. Users who tested the search engine also reported similar errors. Bing...

A robot’s journey underneath the Doomsday glacier.

Icefin, a robot designed to swim under 2,000 feet of ice, has found trouble beneath the Doomsday Glacier. The robot found that 10% of the glacier's ice shelf contributes to 25% of the melting observed. The glacier has been rapidly deteriorating, and if it collapses, global sea...

AI matchmaking technology cures aggressive blood cancer.

Researchers used new matchmaking technology to find the right drug for a man with blood cancer that chemotherapy failed to eliminate. The technology considers biological differences and tested dozens of treatments using automation and computer vision. The man's cancer disappea...

Privacy in the Age of AI: Risks, Challenges and Solutions

As technology continues to advance at an unprecedented rate, AI has become increasingly prevalent in many areas of our lives. From generative AI that can create any type of content using a simple prompt to smart home devices that learn our habits and preferences, AI has the po...

Zoom fatigue: when video calls go from hype to reality.

Zoom, the video conferencing platform, recently laid off 15% of its staff, or about 1,300 people. This came after the company had tripled its headcount in the past two years. The CEO, Eric Yuan, took responsibility for the layoffs and vowed to reduce his salary by 98% to $10,000.