Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity… — 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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain. — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by… — 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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And… — 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… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
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… — 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
