Nexus: One of NPR’s Best Books of 2013!
I'm delighted to find that NPR has named Nexus as one of their Best Books of 2013. It's on both the Science Fiction / Fantasy list and the Mystery / Thriller list. On the SFF list it's up there with...
View ArticleTEDx Talk: Linking Human Minds
Video of my TEDxRainier talk, on Linking Human Brains, is now up. This is all about the current science of sending sights, sounds, and sensations in and out of human brains, and the frontiers of...
View ArticleNominated for the Campbell, Clarke, Prometheus, and Kitschie!
I’m up for some awards, and on those lists with some fantastic people. 1) The Campbell Award On Saturday the finalists for the Hugo Awards and Campbell Award for 2014 were announced. So now I can...
View ArticleNexus and Cory Doctorow’s Homeland Tie for the Prometheus Award
My novel Nexus and Cory Doctorow’s novel Homeland have tied for the Prometheus Award! The award is given to the best pro-freedom science fiction novel of the year. I love the Prometheus Award because...
View ArticleVideo: Brain Implants to Link and Augment Human Minds (The Science of Nexus)
Here’s video of my Le Web Paris talk, on Linking Human Minds. This is all about the current science of sending sights, sounds, and sensations in and out of human brains, and the frontiers of augmenting...
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The Singularity is Further Than it Appears
This is an updated cross-post of a post I originally made at Charlie Stross’s blog. Are we headed for a Singularity? Is AI a Threat? tl;dr: Not anytime soon. Lack of incentives means very little strong...
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The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain
A shorter version of this article first appeared at TechCrunch. The final frontier of digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there....
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Win Copies of All Six Philip K. Dick Award Finalists
I’m up for the Philip K. Dick Award, which pleases me to no end, since Dick wrote some excellent, mind-bending, ground-breaking sci-fi about the nature of memory, identity, and much else. It also...
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APEX Wins the Philip K. Dick Award!
Tonight, in Seattle, I was in the crowd when my novel Apex won the Philip. K Dick Award. .@Ramez Naam reading from Apex at the Philip K. Dick Awards ceremony. pic.twitter.com/eY6ilrDsMl — CC Finlay...
View ArticleOur Future Cyborg Brains: My Keynote at XTech 2017
I had a fantastic time keynoting the XTech Experiential Technology conference last week. Thanks very much Zack Lynch and Adam Gazzaley for the invitation. I talked about the science that inspired my...
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