Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of groups of… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
