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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth. -- Ramez Naam
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If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it. -- Ramez Naam
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Funny how the experience of one person could have such an impact on billions of others. Pryce wondered what that said about the way the world was run. Nothing good, she was sure of that. All politics is personal, Pryce thought. It turns out all policy is personal, too. -- Ramez Naam
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain. -- Ramez Naam
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer. -- Ramez Naam
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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Breathe.
Slow.
Observe.
Break the link between sensation and reaction.
Breathe into the gap between them.
Blind reaction is attachment.
Blind reaction is slavery.
Freedom exists in the gap.
Choice exists in the gap.
I exist in the gap. -- Ramez Naam
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year. -- Ramez Naam
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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The days passed. Sunday turned to Monday turned to Tuesday turned to Wednesday. -- Ramez Naam
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We're all born dying, someone had said. What matters is only how we spend the instant we're given. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help? -- Ramez Naam
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. -- Ramez Naam
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Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics. -- Ramez Naam
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe. -- Ramez Naam
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Luxuries and indulgences were distractions from true greatness, tawdry and ephemeral baubles that dissipated energy that could be directed toward more meaningful and durable accomplishments in the world around him. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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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
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Rangan came to the surface in the mid-afternoon of Inauguration Day, in the trunk of a car driven by a terrified aide of Senator Barbara Engels, Chairwoman of the Senate Select Oversight Committee on Homeland Security. -- Ramez Naam
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'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
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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
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Buddhism suits me 'cuz nobody's in charge. Nobody's decidin' for me if I'm good or bad, goin' to heaven or hell. It's just me workin' on my head, you workin' your head, the friggin' Dalai Lama workin' on his head. -- Ramez Naam
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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. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty. -- Ramez Naam
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In a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times. -- Ramez Naam
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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 I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel. -- Ramez Naam
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It was a toss-up which was more pointless: Arguing with an algorithm or talking back to his mother. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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That would've been way too hard. We wanted to do neuroscience, not operating system development. So -- Ramez Naam
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The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better. -- Ramez Naam
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Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity. -- Ramez Naam
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If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology. -- Ramez Naam
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In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded. -- Ramez Naam
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Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way. -- Ramez Naam
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By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have. -- Ramez Naam
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After the debacle of the party, debugging the code running in his own brain was bliss. His body lay safely in his bed. His mind exulted inside the Nexus development environment, tracing the events that had led to the fault. Here he was in his element. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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The right to determine your individual destiny belongs in your hands, and no one else's. -- Ramez Naam
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Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say. -- Ramez Naam
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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 are close to collapse, and so on. -- Ramez Naam
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We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of groups of humans cooperating. Those groups are organisms in their own rights. -- Ramez Naam
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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 ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago. -- Ramez Naam
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It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves. -- Ramez Naam
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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 without limit. -- Ramez Naam
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food. -- Ramez Naam
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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
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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
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When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives. -- Ramez Naam
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They'd done their best with democracy, with capitalism, but those had reached their limit long ago. They'd been corrupted, twisted to the interests of a few individuals, when the greatest problems the world faced were problems of collective interest. -- Ramez Naam
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Never trust a soldier who's eager to go to war. -- Ramez Naam
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Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures -- Ramez Naam
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New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion. -- Ramez Naam
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Will was very British and on his way to very drunk. -- Ramez Naam
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Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence. -- Ramez Naam
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When the CIA is the place you turn to for moral clarity, Nakamura thought, you might have a problem. -- Ramez Naam
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Fortune Town IT Mall and buy software and electronics of all sorts very, very, very cheap, -- Ramez Naam
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Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?
It doesn't. -- Ramez Naam
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To understand a thing is to gain the power to change it. -- Ramez Naam
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That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems. -- Ramez Naam
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Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents. -- Ramez Naam
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The past was read-only. -- Ramez Naam
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I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined. -- Ramez Naam
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TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable. -- Ramez Naam
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I'm saying that Nexus may defy human understanding because it is not the product of normal human thought,"Holtzman said. "It is the product of posthuman thought. -- Ramez Naam
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She let her practice speak through her body. She was a stalk of bamboo. She was a summer storm. She was a whirlwind. She was made for this. -- Ramez Naam
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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change. -- Ramez Naam
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If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior. -- Ramez Naam
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Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can pump CO2 into the atmosphere and let the whole world foot the bill. -- Ramez Naam
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People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more. -- Ramez Naam
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I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied. -- Ramez Naam
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We don't have good global policies in place for climate. -- Ramez Naam
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You're just a small piece. Death doesn't matter. The whole lives on. -- Ramez Naam
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We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty. -- Ramez Naam
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I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do for public acceptance of agricultural biotech. And we should label them because there's absolutely nothing to hide. -- Ramez Naam
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Who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you. -- Ramez Naam
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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist. -- Ramez Naam
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Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it. -- Ramez Naam
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching. -- Ramez Naam
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If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction. -- Ramez Naam