Ramez Naam is a professional technologist who helped create two of the most widely used pieces of software in the world: Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. He is currently the CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, which develops software for nanotechnology researchers. He also serves on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, is a member of the World Future Society, and is a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. In many countries, Technologists are synonymous with applied scientists or engineers. ... Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE is a web browser from Microsoft currently sold as part of Microsoft Windows. ... Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003) is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Molecular gears from a NASA computer simulation. ... This article reads like an advertisement, and therefore is not neutral in tone. ... The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James Hughes. ...

Naam is the author of More than Human: How Technology Will Transform Us and Why We Should Embrace It, which offers a tour of new technologies and makes a case for embracing human enhancement, showing readers how new technologies are powerful new tools in humanity’s quest to improve ourselves, our offspring and our world. Human enhancement describes any attempt, whether temporary or permanent, to overcome the current limitations of human cognitive and physical abilities, whether through natural or artificial means. ...

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• Ramez Naam. More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. Broadway Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7679-1843-6