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

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.

McKinsey's Baker's Dozen: 13 Tech Trends That Will Own 2025 (Spoiler: AI Touches Everything)

McKinsey just dropped their annual tech trends report. AI isn't just leading—it's infiltrating every other trend like digital oxygen. Your competition is already moving on at least three of these.

China Just Proposed a Global AI Organization. The Tech Cold War Goes Nuclear

While Trump strips AI regulations, China's Premier Li Qiang drops a geopolitical bombshell: a new global AI cooperation organization. The camps are forming. Pick your side.

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.

Building Tomorrow: The $51.6M Chip That Breaks AI's Energy Crisis

Silicon Valley chases AI dreams. Now they're chasing nuclear reactors to power them. The revolution just got real.

Waste Wood Just Became Stronger Than Steel: The $500M Factory That Changes Everything

Soft poplar scraps that couldn't build a garden shed are becoming bulletproof doors. Welcome to the molecular revolution changing everything.

Why AI Agents Are Splitting Your Soul Into Pieces

Ask ChatGPT to "just handle this" and you're Voldemort dividing your soul. Except instead of immortality, you're achieving digital serfdom.

The Walmart Heiress Who's Teaching Doctors to Prescribe Art Instead of Pills

The world's richest woman just spent a fortune teaching doctors to ignore everything we think we know about medicine. And she might save healthcare.

AI Designed a Physics Experiment So Bizarre, Thousands of Scientists Missed It for 40 Years

LIGO spent $1.1 billion detecting gravitational waves. An AI just made it 15% better using designs that "looked like alien things... just a mess."

AI Wrote a Joke About Marie Antoinette's Beheading. The Audience Laughed. We're All Doomed

"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.