RAMEZ NAAM is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He is a former Microsoft executive, and former CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, a nanotech startup. He is the author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement (2005), for which he was awarded the 2005 H.G. Wells Award. He lives in Seattle.
""I'm an optimist," he writes more than once. Optimism about the
power of ideas offers no guarantees, as Naam is well aware; he
carefully avoids complacency. Something needs to be done to
stimulate our ingenuity, Naam writes. Equal parts pragmatic and
inspiring, his book offers a helpful guide for that purpose."--
"The Intelligent Optimist"
"By providing a detailed, statistically rich historical background
on many of the detrimental practices and attitudes that have
brought humanity to the nail-biting precipice that may await a
century from now, Naam strengthens his soberly confident, if not
cautiously optimistic, predictions for how humans can walk it back
from the edge of disaster."-- "Booklist"
"Computer scientist/writer Naam has produced a compelling road map
for meeting the dire environmental, energy, and food challenges
facing human civilization. He argues persuasively, drawing from a
wealth of research, that humanity has the potential to innovate
itself out of those problems, as it has before."-- "Choice"
Seattle-based writer and former Microsoft executive Ramez Naam
argues that we can solve the natural-resource and environmental
challenges that face us -- and grow global prosperity -- if we tap
our most abundant resource: innovation.-- "Seattle Times"
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