Ramez Naam Quotes

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

I'm excited about all technology.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

Technology is power.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

Some people think technology has the answers.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

We live in an age of miracles.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.