Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam is the author of More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, which offers a tour of emerging technologies and makes a case for embracing human enhancement, showing readers how these technologies are powerful new tools in humanity’s quest to improve ourselves, our offspring and our world. His next book, The Infinite Resource:  The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet is due out in Fall of 2012. 

Naam is a professional technologist who helped create two of the most widely used pieces of software in the world: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. He is currently the CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, which develops software for nanotechnology researchers. He also serves on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, and is a member of the World Future Society. He is the recipient of the 2005 H. G. Wells Award for Contributions to Transhumanism.

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Books

More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement by Ramez Naam (2005)

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Articles

"The Future of Humans as a ‘Meta-Species’"   H Plus Magazine  Aug 11, 2011

"Can we capture all of the world’s carbon emissions?"   Scientific American  Apr 1, 2011

"Key Trends of the Next 25 Years"   Unbridled Speculation  Mar 25, 2011

"Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore’s law apply to solar cells?"   Scientific American  Mar 17, 2011

"From Printing Press to Twitter: What makes a technology pro-democracy?"   Unbridled Speculation  Feb 11, 2011

"Egypt, Twitter, and the Collapse of Top-Heavy Societies"   Unbridled Speculation  Feb 8, 2011

"Egypt: Lessons for US Foreign Policy"   Ethical Technology  Jan 30, 2011

"Top Five Reasons ‘The Singularity’ is a Misnomer"   H Plus Magazine  Nov 18, 2010

"Global Warming: Risk of Methane Release from Frozen Tundra"   More Than Human  Dec 5, 2008

"The Body: Bulletproof"   Fast Company 103 p88  Mar 13, 2006

"Life Extension and Overpopulation"   An Excerpt From More Than Human  May 30, 2005

"Interview with Ramez Naam"   NuSapiens  Mar 11, 2005