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Now What?

How to Ride the Tsunami of Change

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Now What?

By: Mark van Rijmenam
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THE FUTURE ISN'T COMING, IT'S HERE, AND IT FEELS LIKE A TSUNAMI.

Transformative technologies are converging, disrupting industries and society in mere moments. This is a tsunami of change, and the question is no longer whether we can adapt, but how individuals, organizations and institutions can ride it and build a future of abundance.

In Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change, strategic futurist Dr. Mark van Rijmenam presents a dynamic roadmap for thriving in a world of accelerating technologies, boundless innovation, and shifting cultural tides. He demystifies the breakthroughs rewriting our societies and illuminates the powerful synergy of technology and humanity.

Drawing on real-world success stories, ancient wisdom, and the author's own transformative journey, he reveals a path that balances innovation with ethics, ensuring that rapid progress lifts everyone rather than leaving communities behind.

Now What? offers a clear path from anxiety to action. Dive into the possibilities, learn to wield technology as a tool instead of a threat, and stake your claim as an architect of tomorrow. It's time we stopped merely bracing for impact and started riding the wave.

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As we kick off 2026, many leaders are hitting a red line where intuition alone stops working. 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁? 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 arrived at the perfect time for me this holiday.
The book reframes the uncertainty of the coming year and beyond as something to work with rather than eliminate. The storytelling makes the abstract risks of 2026 feel very real.

In particular the story Mark tells around an Ai fighting against being “decommissioned” in the not too distant future as it argues its case that it exists as an individual - not a program, gave me a different lense through which to view the excitement of Ai progress. Through to the potential for deep fakes undetectable to real people, using the example of Ferrari narrowly avoiding a major financial fraud.

He shines a bright light on questions we need to be asking such as what happens when new Uni graduates have no roles to begin their careers with, as Ai does ALL the junior work. The decimation of middle management, the potential of UBI , and the dark side of surveillance, humanoid robotics, voice cloning, image cloning and much more.


I’m entering this new year with better questions rather than just predictions, which is far more valuable.

Strongly recommended for anyone navigating change with real consequences in 2026.

🚩 Consider this book a red flag to complacent thinking.

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Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change cuts through the 2026 noise without sliding into techno-utopia or doom, and replaces vague “trend talk” with a calm, human way to navigate what’s coming. The WAVE framework (Watch, Adapt, Verify, Empower) is practical enough to use immediately, while the bigger message lands harder: the future isn’t something to keep up with, it’s something you’re responsible for shaping. It leaves you with better questions, clearer judgment, and a mindset worth returning to as decisions get harder.

The future doesn't necessarily feel predictable, but for the first time, it feels navigable.

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