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Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.
- Ramez Naam
#Feel
#Human
#Learning
#Memory
#Reality
I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
- Ramez Naam
#Film
#Past
#Performance
#Science
#Will
We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
- Ramez Naam
#Best
#Efficiency
#Energy
#Oil
#Slow
Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
- Ramez Naam
#Believe
#Climate
#Energy
#Now
#Pay
Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
- Ramez Naam
#Fish
#Food
#Juice
#Reason
#Why
Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?
- Ramez Naam
#Bad
#Communication
#Good
#Technology
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
- Ramez Naam
#Extinction
#Fish
#Good
#Land
#Wild
We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
- Ramez Naam
#Energy
#Enough
#Live
#Potential
#Water
I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.
- Ramez Naam
#Distance
#Game
#Look
#See
#Walk
I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
- Ramez Naam
#Green
#Lie
#Love
#Space
#Work
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
- Ramez Naam
#Environmental
#Nation
#Rise
#Wealth
On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
- Ramez Naam
#Care
#Change
#Environmental
#Problems
I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
- Ramez Naam
#Book
#Brain
#Human
#Science
#Technology
'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
- Ramez Naam
#Brave
#Future
#Life
#Wealth
#World
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
- Ramez Naam
#Innovation
#Power
#Talk
#Training
#World
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
- Ramez Naam
#Activity
#Engage
#Environmental
#Food
Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
- Ramez Naam
#Computing
#Out
#Started
#Technology
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
- Ramez Naam
#Find
#Power
#Solar
#Way
#Wind
I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
- Ramez Naam
#AI
#Data
#Search Engine
#Search
#Work
When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
- Ramez Naam
#Doing
#Organization
#The Right Thing
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
- Ramez Naam
#Come
#Earth
#Environmental
#Impact
#Life
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
- Ramez Naam
#Action
#Nothing
#Optimism
#Problems
#Two
Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
- Ramez Naam
#Environmental
#Humanity
#New
#Technology
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
- Ramez Naam
#Environment
#Human
#Safe
#Technology
The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
- Ramez Naam
#Brain
#Digital
#Own
#Technology
#Your
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
- Ramez Naam
#Change
#Climate
#Energy
#Power
#Solar
If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
- Ramez Naam
#Change
#New
#Power
#Society
#Technology
Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
- Ramez Naam
#Book
#Evil
#Manipulation
#Media
#Society
#Us
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
- Ramez Naam
#Best
#Communication
#Freedom
#Good
#Time
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