Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam
Naam at the SingularityU The Netherlands Summit 2016
Naam at the SingularityU The Netherlands Summit 2016
BornCairo, Egypt
Occupation
  • Author
  • 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

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]

  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.