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Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam
Author / Group Program Manager, More Than Human / Microsoft

Website

Ramez Naam believes in the power of technology and effective social and economic structures to amplify humam abilities.

He is the author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, which outlines the coming wave of mind and body enhancing technology and argues that we should embrace it.

In addition to his writing on biotechnology and human enhancement, Naam works at Microsoft, where he serves as Group Program Manager for Windows Live Search. He views his job as another vehicle to help raise global intelligence.

Sessions

11:10am Wednesday, 09/17/2008
Bottoms Up and End to End: Apply the Wisdom of Crowds to Businesses
Topic: Web 2.0 at Work
Location: 1A23 & 24
Ramez Naam (More Than Human / Microsoft)
Businesses are large distributed brains. They thrive in a marketplace full of competing ideas. So why are so many of them run like Communist state economies of the 1970s? Bottoms Up starts with the premise that by throwing away authority and giving control to employees information businesses can reinvent themselves and outperform stagnant, statist, top-down enterprises. Read more.