Our story · 2019 → 2046
Every wave arrives faster than the last.
How it began, where we are and where we are heading. Scroll along and feel the acceleration.
Exponential waves of growth are reshaping humanity, shifting systems and changing life itself. This demands new ways of thinking to thrive.
Our visionAmsterdam Innovation Network
Inside Salesforce, Patrick starts the Amsterdam Innovation Network: a place where clients, thinkers and makers look ahead together. The seed of everything that follows.
The world goes into lockdown
Work, learning and meeting move to the screen in a matter of weeks. Digital transformation that would have taken years happens in months.
Executive meetings in virtual reality
While the world sits at home in lockdown, we meet hundreds of executives in VR, in the virtual Salesforce Tower.
Salesforce Tower · VR Supernova
A co-creation programme for strategic clients: from idea to working solution in weeks. Supernova projects with Adyen, Prénatal, Tony's Chocolonely, KWF and many more, where an idea became a very cool app in no time.
The Aanjagers podcast
Aanjagers are people who are not afraid of change. They dare to change. In 40+ episodes, host Patrick speaks with them, together with co-hosts Nick Botter and Bob Snoeren.
Aanjagers · Patrick & Aragorn ChatGPT
A hundred million users within two months. For the first time everyone feels the wave, not just the early movers.
AI passes the bar exam
GPT-4 scores among the best human candidates on professional exams. AI moves from fun to serious.
A conversation that never stopped
Patrick interviews Aragorn, aka Mr. Metaverse, for Aanjagers. It becomes the most listened episode. The mic turned off after 90 minutes, but the conversation never stopped.
Innovation Network goes independent, with Aragorn as co-founder
The concept leaves Salesforce and becomes a company of its own, with one mission: helping leaders thrive in exponential times. Aragorn joins as co-founder, and together we build Innovation Network into what it is today. The Dîners Pensants, evenings full of philosophy, grow into the Innovation Dinners.
Aragorn & Patrick We started time travelling
Every network has its most vital nodes. Ours are the Time Travellers: a close-knit group of trusted friends who keep us sharp, grounded and true to our values. Our compass, our sparring partners, our informal board of advisors.
Time Travellers Nobel Prizes for AI
The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry go to AI pioneers, including the makers of AlphaFold. Science itself is accelerating.
IN Meetups
The community comes together in December. No stage, no pitch: an evening of sharp questions, open conversation and pizza, with people who want to understand what is coming.
IN Meetup · December AI agents get to work
Models no longer just write, they carry out tasks. From chatbot to colleague.
Golven van Overvloed
Patrick publishes his book on five technological waves: living and working in a world of exponential growth. More dinners, more stages, more leaders who want to surf instead of sink.
We enter the AGI era?
AI systems match experts in more and more domains. The question is no longer if, but how we deal with it.
Vibe coding masterclasses take off
Leadership teams stop talking about AI and start building with it. In one day managers go from idea to working prototype, without writing a line of code. Room after room fills up.
Vibe Coding Masterclass A new chapter
Patrick continues as sole owner. Singularity Surfers returns as a Dutch community with its own members' space.
The transition year
A circle of leaders of our own and dinner series with more technology partners. It feels like the beginning. Because it is.
AI does its own research
AI systems run research end to end, from hypothesis to experiment to result. The leading AI labs openly aim for this by 2028. Discovery itself starts to accelerate.
Human-level AI
The year for which Ray Kurzweil has predicted human-level AI for decades.
The waves stack up
Intelligence, machines, virtual worlds, systems and humanity itself. The five waves from Golven van Overvloed start reinforcing each other.
Almost vertical
What takes a year today happens in a week. The question is no longer whether you join, but how you stay on your board.
A journey through time
Founded in 2046. We came back to help you surf.
Ray Kurzweil predicted the singularity around 2046. Today the curve still feels flat. That is exactly what makes exponential growth so deceptive. From here we look back, so you can catch the right wave today.