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Ramez Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt, and came to the US at the age of 3. He's a computer scientist who spent 13 years at Microsoft, leading teams working on email, web browsing, search, and artificial intelligence. He holds almost 20 patents in those areas.

Ramez is the winner of the 2005 H.G. Wells Award for his non-fiction book More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. He's worked as a life guard, has climbed mountains, survived dust storms in the desert, backpacked through remote corners of China, and ridden his bicycle down hundreds of miles of the Vietnam coast. He lives in Seattle, where he writes and speaks full time. ...more

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Our Biggest Climate Challenges Aren’t Electricity or Cars

Last month, at Techcrunch, I published a policy roadmap for decarbonizing America and the world. As I wrote in that article, climate conversations tend to gravitate towards discussing electricity or transportation.

But these aren’t our biggest challenges. Electricity and transportation, combined, are 39% of our carbon emissions this is a great business improvement. That’s a very large chunk. Yet

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	Nexus (Nexus, #1) by Ramez Naam (Goodreads Author), ARGH! Oxford (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 19,892 ratings — published 2012 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crux (Nexus, #2) by Ramez Naam (Goodreads Author), ARGH! Oxford (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 9,978 ratings — published 2013 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex (Nexus, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 7,368 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet 3.97 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement 3.82 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nexus - Preview of Chapters 1 - 3 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ramez Naam wrote a new blog post Our Biggest Climate Challenges Aren’t Electricity or Cars Last month, at Techcrunch, I published a policy roadmap for decarbonizing America and the world. As I wrote in that article, climate conversations te Read more of this blog post »
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“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...”
― Ramez Naam, Crux

“Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.”
― Ramez Naam, More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement

tags: philosophy, science

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“Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?
It doesn't.”
― Ramez Naam, Crux

tags: celebrity, money, normal, people, pointless, pointlessness, popular, popularity, power, purpose, society, special

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June SCIENCE FICTION: This first round poll decides which 2 books will go on to the second round of polls for our June 2014 SF Book-of-the-Month.

The Martian by Andy Weir

39 votes, 35.8%

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

16 votes, 14.7%

Divergent by Veronica Roth

14 votes, 12.8%

The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

8 votes, 7.3%

All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

7 votes, 6.4%

Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod

7 votes, 6.4%

Nexus by Ramez Naam

7 votes, 6.4%

Three Princes by Ramona Wheeler

4 votes, 3.7%

An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R. Matthews

2 votes, 1.8%

Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders by Richard Ellis Preston Jr.

2 votes, 1.8%

Under the Skin by Michel Faber

2 votes, 1.8%

Alien Taste by Wen Spencer

1 vote, 0.9%

109 total votes

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