Our Future Cyborg Brains: My Keynote at XTech 2017
22 Mar, 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 Nexus novels, and what it might mean for society. You can check out…
R e a d M o r eAPEX Wins the Philip K. Dick Award!
26 Mar, 2016
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 (@ccfinlay) March 26, 2016 Apex is the third and final book of…
R e a d M o r eWin Copies of All Six Philip K. Dick Award Finalists
9 Feb, 2016
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 pleases me to no end that, on most sci-fi award slates, the authors…
R e a d M o r eThe Ultimate Interface: Your Brain
15 May, 2015
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. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks like it’s possible. You’ve…
R e a d M o r eThe Singularity is Further Than it Appears
12 May, 2015
This is an updated cross-post of a post I originally made at Charlie Stross’s blog.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 AI work is happening. And even if we did…
R e a d M o r eVideo: Brain Implants to Link and Augment Human Minds (The Science of Nexus)
21 Sep, 2014
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 and transferring memory and intelligence. Le Web did a…
R e a d M o r eNexus and Cory Doctorow’s Homeland Tie for the Prometheus Award
13 Jul, 2014
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 it’s focused on a particular criteria: Science fiction novels that both examine…
R e a d M o r eNominated for the Campbell, Clarke, Prometheus, and Kitschie!
23 Apr, 2014
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 reveal that I’m a finalist for the Campbell Award…
R e a d M o r eTEDx Talk: Linking Human Minds
13 Jan, 2014
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 augmenting and transferring memory and intelligence. I loved giving this…
R e a d M o r eNexus: One of NPR’s Best Books of 2013!
4 Dec, 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 books by some of my favorite…
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