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 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in. - Ramez Naam 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth. - Ramez Naam 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' - Ramez Naam 7 Share Now -
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 poverty. - Ramez Naam 8 Share Now -
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' - Ramez Naam 9 Share Now -
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment. - Ramez Naam 10 Share Now -
