Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam is an American technologist and science fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the Nexus Trilogy. His other books include The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement. He is currently co-chair for energy and the environment at Singularity University.[1]

Ramez Naam
Naam at the SingularityU The Netherlands Summit 2016
BornCairo, Egypt
OccupationAuthor, Speaker, Futurist
CitizenshipUnited States
Notable awardsH.G. Wells Award, Prometheus Award, Nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Philip K. Dick Award
Website
rameznaam.com

Earlier in his life, Naam was a computer scientist at Microsoft for 13 years, and led teams working on Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Bing.[2]

Early life

Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt to a Coptic Christian family[3], and came to the United States when he was three years old. He has worked as a lifeguard.[4] Naam worked at Microsoft for 13 years, and led teams working on Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Bing.[5]

Career

Ramez Naam is an Adjunct Professor at Singularity University, where he lectures on energy, environment, and innovation. He has appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, Yahoo! Finance, China Cable Television, BigThink, and Reuters.fm. His work has appeared on, or has been reviewed by, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Business Week, Business Insider, Discover, Popular Science, Wired, and Scientific American.[6]

Naam’s most famous book, Nexus, was one of NPR’s best books of 2013.[7] There are many high-tech battles in Nexus. Naam’s books have a large high-tech influence because he wants people to realize how technology might direct humans in the wrong way, beyond humanity itself.[8]

Awards

In 2005 he received the H.G. Wells Award for Contributions to Transhumanism.[9]

In 2014 Nexus won the Prometheus Award, and he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[10] In 2015 Apex won the Philip K. Dick Award.[11]

Books

Non-fiction
  • More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. Broadway Books, 2005
  • The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet. University Press of New England, 2013

Fiction

The Nexus Trilogy
  1. Nexus (December 2012)
  2. Crux (August 2013)
  3. Apex (May 2015)
gollark: As far as I can tell, basically every website supports HTTPS nowadays, but DNS over HTTPS is still rare partly because of governments and ISPs being annoying about it.
gollark: I mean generally. Look at DNS. They didn't even have DNS over HTTPS or DNSSEC until fairly recently, and they're still not widely used.
gollark: Yeeees, it's weird how people didn't seem to even consider security and privacy in lots of computer things until seemingly recently.
gollark: ```2: enp0s31f6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 8c:0f:6f:79:3c:11 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.3/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp0s31f6 valid_lft 76132sec preferred_lft 76132sec inet6 2a00:23c7:5415:d300:8152:48aa:288d:30ee/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute valid_lft 315359952sec preferred_lft 315359952sec inet6 fdaa:bbcc:ddee:0:8809:32c8:2206:c1f1/64 scope global noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::c1c0:d8c0:f52e:773f/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever```
gollark: No.

References
  1. "Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech". GeekWire. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  2. "Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech". GeekWire. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  3. https://qz.com/41730/the-biggest-problem-with-egypts-new-constitution-is-that-it-will-probably-be-ignored/
  4. "Ramez Naam". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  5. "Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech". GeekWire. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  6. "Ramez Naam: The Future Isn't Set In Stone!". Singularity Weblog. 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  7. "Nexus: Choosing Sides In The Trans-Human Revolution". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  8. "Nexus: Choosing Sides In The Trans-Human Revolution". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  9. "Ramez Naam". ieet.org. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  10. "2014 Hugo Awards" at LonCon 3 site
  11. Liptak, Andrew. "Ramez Naam's Apex Is The Winner Of The Philip K. Dick Award". io9.gizmodo.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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