Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam, 2016

Ramez Naam (* Cairo ) is a computer specialist , futurist and science fiction writer. He was instrumental in the development of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook . In his last role at Microsoft, he was Partner Group Program Manager for Live Search.

Life and activities

Ramez Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt. He came to the United States at the age of three .

He was the CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies , a company developing software in the field of nanotechnology research, before returning to Microsoft.

Naam is a member of the Advisory Board of the Acceleration Studies Foundation , a member of the World Future Society , a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, and a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies .

He is the author of More Than Human: Embracing the promise of biological enhancement , where he advocates comprehensive technical enhancements of humans.

Naam received the 2005 HG Wells Award from the World Transhumanist Association for contributions to transhumanism .

Naam began publishing science fiction in 2012 with the novel Nexus . It is about a nano-drug with this name, which enables the expansion of brain functions up to the connection of consciousnesses, but also their manipulation, as well as the upload of consciousnesses to computer-based hardware is possible through nanotechnology. Naam received the Prometheus Award for Nexus in 2014 . Nexus is the first part of a trilogy with the sequels Crux (2013) and Apex (2015); for Apex , Naam received the Philip K. Dick Award for 2015.

Naam holds 19 patents in the fields of email , web browsing, web search, and artificial intelligence .

In 2014 he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award .

bibliography

Non-fiction

• More than human. Embracing the promise of biological enhancement . Broadway Books, New York 2005, ISBN 0-7679-1843-6 .
• The infinite resource. The power of ideas on a finite planet . University Press of New England, Hanover [NH] 2013, ISBN 978-1-61168-255-7 .

Science fiction

• Nexus . E-books by the Random House publishing group, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-641-13138-8 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201407209575 (original published in 2013, translated by Bernhard Kempen ).
• Crux . Heyne, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-31683-6 (original published in 2013, translated by Bernhard Kempen ).
• Apex . Angry Robot, Nottingham 2015, ISBN 978-0-85766-401-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ramez Naam on CrunchBase
2. ↑ Ramez Naam on ieet.org
3. ↑ Ramez Naam on bookbrowse.com
4. ↑ About on rameznaam.com
5. ↑ 2014 Hugo Awards

Web links

• Literature by and about Ramez Naam in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ramez Naam in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Ramez Naam at Open Library
• Homepage on RamezNaam.com
• Interview with O'Reilly Radar Podcast
• Nexus , review on booknerds.de
• Crux , review on netzpolitik.org
• Naam's law