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# Transforming Your Business and Our World
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/transforming-your-business-and-our-world/
- Published: 2018-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-23T09:27:09.000Z
- Description: This week, I spoke at the Global Blockchain Conference in Kuala Lumpur and at Windays 2018 in Porec, Croatia and I had some very interesting discussions with the participants on the enormous potential of Blockchain.
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: #newsletter, Synthetic Minds Newsletter

Dr Mark van Rijmenam

# The f(x) = e^x | April 25, 2018

*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.* 

*Recently, I launched my new concept* [**The Digital Speaker**](https://thedigitalspeaker.com/?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com) *and you can now book me as an avatar or hologram. Also, my tech trend prediction for 2021 is out, *[read it here](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/top-five-strategic-technology-trends-2021-year-of-digitalism/)*!*

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##  Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World 

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### My latest article:

This week, I spoke at the Global Blockchain Conference in Kuala Lumpur and at Windays 2018 in Porec, Croatia and I had some very interesting discussions with the participants on the enormous potential of Blockchain. Blockchain has a lot of potential for organisations to improve their bottom line, but it also offers an opportunity to improve the state of our world.  
  
That is why Dr Philippa Ryan and I have written a book on how Blockchain can be used for social good. Our book, Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World, will be published in August in English and soon after in Chinese. As a little teaser, [**you can find the abstract of our book here.**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-transforming-your-business-our-world-mark-van-rijmenam/?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com)

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### **Three Useful Nuggets of Information**

*My weekly tips from around the web to get you thinking.*

### 1\. AI brings magic to the next level.

Advanced technology may be indistinguishable from magic if advanced enough, but what if you combine AI and magic? Prepare for some 21st-century tricks that you won’t believe. ([**Wired**](http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tom-london-magic-thomas-webb-hacker-ibm-samsung-microsoft?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com))

### 2\. Are you ready for an army of cockroaches?

A giant indoor farm in China is breeding 6 billion cockroaches a year and uses Artificial Intelligence to manage a population of cockroaches almost the size of human’s population. All for medicinal purposes. ([**SCMP**](http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2142316/giant-indoor-farm-china-breeding-six-billion-cockroaches-year?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com))

### 3\. Is Europe finally catching up in the AI race?

Leading scientists have drawn up plans for a vast multinational European institute devoted to world-class artificial intelligence research in an attempt to close the gap with the USA and China and to avoid a brain drain to large tech firms. ([**The Guardian**](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/23/scientists-plan-huge-european-ai-hub-to-compete-with-us?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com))

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