Ramez Naam
- Author
- speaker
- futurist
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]
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 in, 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 book Nexus was one of NPR’s best books of 2013.[7] Nexus and its sequels explore the risks and potential rewards of a technology allowing humans to link their mind directly to one another.[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
- Nexus (December 2012)
- Crux (August 2013)
- Apex (May 2015)
References
- ^ "Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech". GeekWire. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech". GeekWire. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "The biggest problem with Egypt's new constitution is that it will probably be ignored". 10 January 2013.
- ^ "Ramez Naam". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech". GeekWire. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Ramez Naam: The Future Isn't Set In Stone!". Singularity Weblog. 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Nexus: Choosing Sides In The Trans-Human Revolution". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Nexus: Choosing Sides In The Trans-Human Revolution". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Ramez Naam". ieet.org. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "2014 Hugo Awards" at LonCon 3 site
- ^ Liptak, Andrew (26 March 2016). "Ramez Naam's Apex Is The Winner Of The Philip K. Dick Award". io9.gizmodo.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Interview with O’Reilly Radar Podcast
- Interview with BookBrowse
- Naam's law
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- The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1983)
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
- Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers (1985)
- Homunculus by James Blaylock (1986)
- Strange Toys by Patricia Geary (1987)
- Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J. McAuley (1988) (tie)
- Wetware by Rudy Rucker (1988) (tie)
- Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo (1989)
- Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (1990)
- King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald (1991)
- Through the Heart by Richard Grant (1992)
- Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford (1993) (tie)
- Elvissey by Jack Womack (1993) (tie)
- Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson (1994)
- Headcrash by Bruce Bethke (1995)
- The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter (1996)
- The Troika by Stepan Chapman (1997)
- 253: The Print Remix by Geoff Ryman (1998)
- Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter (1999)
- Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (2000)
- Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (2001)
- The Mount by Carol Emshwiller (2002)
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2003)
- Life by Gwyneth Jones (2004)
- War Surf by M. M. Buckner (2005)
- Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (2006)
- Nova Swing by M. John Harrison (2007)
- Emissaries from The Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (2008) (tie)
- Terminal Mind by David Walton (2008) (tie)
- Bitter Angels by C. L. Anderson (2009)
- The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (2010)
- The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden (2011)
- Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (2012)
- Countdown City by Ben H. Winters (2013)
- The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison (2014)
- Apex by Ramez Naam (2015)
- The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper (2016)
- Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn (2017)
- Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman (2018)
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- Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine (2020)
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