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1 Early life  





2 Career  





3 Awards  





4 Books  



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4.2.1  The Nexus Trilogy  









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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]

    Early life[edit]

    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[edit]

    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[edit]

    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[edit]

    Non-fiction[edit]

    Fiction[edit]

    The Nexus Trilogy[edit]

    1. Nexus (December 2012)
    2. Crux (August 2013)
    3. Apex (May 2015)

    References[edit]

    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.
  • ^ "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.
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