What’s the biggest mistake people make when they think about the future of technology?Ĥ. How do you imagine the future in which your books take place?ģ. What is the value of science fiction? How does it impact people’s lives?Ģ. Here are a few of the questions we tackle:ġ. If you like the Uncommon Stock Trilogy, you’ll definitely appreciate the world Ramez has envisioned. We recorded this interview a few months ago and I’m excited to share it now to coincide with Apex’s release. Ramez is also a veteran technologist and helped build blue chip products like Internet Explorer and Outlook. I’m a huge fan of Ramez’s novels and Apex, the third and final book, just launched.

Ramez is the author of the bestselling Nexus Trilogy, an ambitious technothriller series that deftly juggles themes ranging from transhumanism to geopolitics. He lives in Seattle, where he writes and speaks full time.What role does human imagination play in shaping the world we live in? How can science fiction help us to wrestle with the issues raised by new technological advances? Can crafting visions of possible futures enable us to better navigate the present?įew people are more qualified to answer these questions than Ramez Naam. 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. Wells Award for his non-fiction book More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. He holds almost 20 patents in those areas.

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

He lives in Seattle, where he writes and speaks full time.

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