AI's $1B Secret: The Best Engineers Stopped Writing Prompts in 2025
Everyone's still tweaking prompts. Meanwhile, the winners rewired how AI thinks. Context engineering just changed everything.
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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Everyone's still tweaking prompts. Meanwhile, the winners rewired how AI thinks. Context engineering just changed everything.
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Read MoreSoft poplar scraps that couldn't build a garden shed are becoming bulletproof doors. Welcome to the molecular revolution changing everything.
Read MoreAsk ChatGPT to "just handle this" and you're Voldemort dividing your soul. Except instead of immortality, you're achieving digital serfdom.
Read MoreThe world's richest woman just spent a fortune teaching doctors to ignore everything we think we know about medicine. And she might save healthcare.
Read MoreThis week’s Synthetic Minds covers your personal AI research layer, the rise of robot metabolism, AI-generated disaster bait, physics breakthroughs from alien-minded algorithms, and startup teams so small they’d fit in a sedan. Welcome to a world where even reality is optimized.
Read MoreLIGO spent $1.1 billion detecting gravitational waves. An AI just made it 15% better using designs that "looked like alien things... just a mess."
Read More"It's got the perfect cut – just like her head." That's what AI responded when asked about Marie Antoinette's diamond. I laughed. Then I questioned everything.
Read More"Why do they do this to people?" The Malaysian grandmother's voice cracked as she realized the scenic Kuak Skyride she'd seen on TikTok was pixels and lies.
Read MoreWhile a $2 million tractor plants wheat across 7,500 acres, the modern farmer of today is on a Zoom call. The steering wheel hasn't been touched in hours.
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