Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 3)

AI Bots Now Build Your Psychological Profile in Real-Time

Your fake friends just got an upgrade. They're analyzing your emotions, adapting to your moods, and you can't tell they're not human. Welcome to 2025's reality check.

6,000 Job Applications, Zero Offers: CS Grads Face Reality Check

A computer science grad with a Purdue degree sent nearly 6000 job applications and just got rejected by McDonald's for "lack of experience." The only interview call? Chipotle. Welcome to tech's new reality.

Synthetic Minds | Why I Do What I Do

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers why I do what I do, and why we’ve entered an era where AI maps every meter of Earth, simulates realities on command, builds infrastructure like empires, and demands wisdom just to stay visible. From Genie 3 to agentic AI, it’s not sci-fi, it’s strategy.

China's Cashless Revolution Just Showed Us Our AI Future—And Most of You Aren't Ready

A vending machine that won't take cash. Museum tickets only through WeChat. Taxis that ignore you without the right app. This isn't dystopian fiction, it's China today. And it's exactly what's about to happen with AI literacy, except faster and more brutal.

When Knowledge Outruns Wisdom: How I’m Trying to Help Us Catch Up

We’re drowning in content but starved for insight. This article shares my framework for closing the gap: Keynotes to spark awareness, Now What? to operationalize change, and Futurwise to sustain daily intelligence. Read less, know more, and turn signals into strategy with ethics baked in.

Genie 3 and the Death of Reality: Just Words, Now Worlds

If this isn’t proof we live in a simulation built by future humans… it’s the next best thing. Genie 3 turns text into interactive reality—and we’re not ready.

Silicon Valley Just Spent $102.5 Billion on Concrete and Steel. The Age of Code Is Dead.

Tech's biggest players aren't building apps anymore. They're pouring foundations for data centers that dwarf steel mills. Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon collectively dropped $102.5 billion on data centers, more than most countries' GDP.

Google's AI Just Created a Digital Twin of Earth

Google just mapped every 10x10 meter square of Earth. The catch? They trained an AI on trillions of images to see through clouds.

Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change — Available Now!

📚 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄, 𝗜 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. The future isn't coming, it's here. And it feels like a tsunami. Today, I'm super excited to launch my sixth book: "Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change."

Synthetic Minds | Microbial CEOs, Nuclear AI & Superwood Magic

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers why reality isn’t human-centric, but perspective-dependent. Discover how bacteria outperform CEOs at networking, China’s AI geopolitical gauntlet, context engineering rewriting AI capabilities, and wood stronger than steel.