The f(x) = e^x | Blockchain Preventing Fake News
The f(x) = e^x | Blockchain Preventing Fake News
Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.
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How Blockchain Can Prevent the Spread of Fake News
My latest article:
Recent technological developments such as GPT-3 and deepfakes have raised the specter of highly advanced fake news. When talking about fake news, there are two different issues that we need to think about First of all, users and third-party media outlets misinterpreting the original source or taking it out of context, potentially deliberately. Secondly, media outlets that have a reputation for misleading or false reporting. In the past months, it seems that fake news is the new standard. Fortunately, the good news is that by offering a distributed, immutable ledger, the blockchain can do a great deal to combat the spread of falsehoods and inaccuracies. Existing organisations and startups are working hard to develop solutions against fake news.
Three Useful Nuggets of Information
My weekly tips from around the web to get you thinking.
1. A robot wrote this article.
GPT-3 OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, wrote an essay for The Guardian from scratch. The assignment? To convince us that robots come in peace. (The Guardian)
2. AI ruined chess, now it is making it beautiful again.
A former world champion teams up with the makers of AlphaZero to test variants on the age-old game that can jolt players into creative patterns. (Wired)
3. Can AI cook you a dinner?
A new app, Plant Jammer, promises to rustle up a recipe based on whatever food you have lying around, using artificial intelligence. Can AI personalise your cooking skills? (BBC)
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker, a world-leading futurist and global AI keynote speaker who helps leaders decide what AI, and the technologies that follow it, mean for their business. He speaks to leadership teams at their retreats and to conference audiences worldwide, and his WAVE framework gives them a way of deciding that they keep using long after he has left the room. His Intelligence Age Scorecard measures how ready an organization is across the four WAVE pillars.
He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, is a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, and ranks among the world’s top futurists on the Global Gurus list (#1 in 2025, #3 in 2026). Salesforce named him one of its 16 leading AI voices. He has written six books, most recently Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change, writes the Synthetic Minds newsletter on Substack, and founded Futurwise. Talk to his digital twin on WhatsApp: +1 (830) 463-6967.
