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Ramez Naam

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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 — 20,904 ratings — published 2012 — 48 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) 4.14 avg rating — 10,410 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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 — 7,734 ratings — published 2015 — 22 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
	The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet 3.95 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 2013 — 11 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 3.81 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2005 — 15 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
	The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Abercrombie, K.J. Parker 3.71 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2013 — 6 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
	Meeting Infinity by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gregory Benford (Contributor), Yoon Ha Lee (Contributor) 3.70 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 2015 — 5 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
	The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2 by Allan Kaster (Goodreads Author), Gregory Benford, Dave Hutchinson 4.14 avg rating — 184 ratings — 3 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 4.44 avg rating — 16 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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“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

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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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A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

55 votes, 36.9%

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

49 votes, 32.9%

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

17 votes, 11.4%

All Clear by Connie Willis

16 votes, 10.7%

Crux by Ramez Naam

12 votes, 8.1%

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