Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam is the author of More than Human: How Technology Will Transform Us and Why We Should Embrace It,  which offers a tour of new technologies and makes a case for embracing human enhancement, showing readers how new technologies are powerful new tools in humanity’s quest to improve ourselves, our offspring and our world.  Naam is a professional technologist who helped create two of the most widely used pieces of software in the world: Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. He is currently the CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, which develops software for nanotechnology researchers. He also serves on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute and is a member of the World Future Society. He is the recipient of the 2005 H. G. Wells Award for Contributions to Transhumanism.

Home Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramez_Naam

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Blogs

More Than Human

Global Warming: Risk of Methane Release from Frozen Tundra

Anders Sandberg, Aubrey de Grey, Nick Bostrom on Future of Human Aging

Uncertainty and Conditioning

Woman Gets New Windpipe Grown from Her Stem Cells

First Potential Anti-Aging Drug Clears Mouse Trials

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Books

More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement by Ramez Naam (2005)

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Articles

"Global Warming: Risk of Methane Release from Frozen Tundra"   More Than Human  Dec 5, 2008

"The Body: Bulletproof"   Fast Company 103 p88  Mar 13, 2006

"Life Extension and Overpopulation"   An Excerpt From More Than Human  May 30, 2005

"Interview with Ramez Naam"   NuSapiens  Mar 11, 2005