Ramez Naam: The World Needs Innovation. Don’t Be a Spectator, Participate! (part 1)
525 views · Published 9 February 2012 · 13:00 · Indexed 2 October 2026
Channel: Singularity Weblog · 2012 · Science & Technology
http://www.singularityweblog.com/ramez-naam-on-singularity-1-on-1-the-world-needs-innovation-dont-be-a-spectator-participate/ Yesterday I interviewed Ramez Naam for my singularity podcast. Ramez is the author of an award-winning, timely and easy to digest book on the ethical, political, economic and other implications of transhumanism titled More Than Human. Since I enjoyed reading the book very much I simply had to interview Naam and ask him to talk more about his ideas. During our conversation we discuss a variety of topics such as: Ramez' early interest philosophy, physics and computer science; the motivation behind his work at Microsoft on projects such as MS Word, Outlook and the Bing search engine; the inspiration behind his book on transhumanism; human evolution and the way technology has become a crucial part of who we are; playing God in general and altering the human DNA in particular; life extension and the probability of overcoming death; artificial intelligence, the technological singularity and why he is not a singularitarian; the limits to growth, resource depletion, innovation and optimism.
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