Ramez Naam is an American technologist and

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

Early life

Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt to a

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family, and came to the United States when he was three years old. He has worked as a lifeguard. Naam worked at Microsoft for 13 years, and led teams working on Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Bing.

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. Naam's book ''Nexus'' was one of NPR’s best books of 2013. ''Nexus'' and its sequels explore the risks and potential rewards of a technology allowing humans to link their mind directly to one another.

Awards

In 2005 he received the H.G. Wells Award for Contributions to Transhumanism. In 2014 ''Nexus'' won the

Prometheus Award The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society. American author and activist L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newl ...

, and he was nominated for the

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer The ''Astounding'' Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) is given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous ...

. In 2015 ''Apex'' won the Philip K. Dick Award.

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

External links

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Interview
with O’Reilly Radar Podcast
Interview
with ''BookBrowse''
Naam's law
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