· Nexus is a thriller for the post-human age, Ramez Naam does a phenomenal job of taking modern cutting edge science and building a realistic world of the near future. In Nexus Naam asks the question, "what if?". The core of the story revolves the nano-drug Nexus, which allows its users to connect mind to mind with other users around them. Nexus by Ramez Naam Book 1 of the Nexus Trilogy - Continued in Book 2: Crux In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to /5(20). · Ramez Naam is a professional technologist, and was involved in the development of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook. He holds a seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a member of the World Future Society, a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging bltadwin.ru: Brilliance Audio.
Ramez Naam is a supporter for transhumanism, and this book (this trilogy) perfectly embodies that goal. The world in Nexus is set in approx where such technologies could exist that 'enhance the human condition'. Ramez Naam is a professional technologist, and was involved in the development of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook. He holds a seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a member of the World Future Society, a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Nexus. by Ramez Naam. I first read this book in July despite it being released in December in order to vote in the Hugo Awards in the not-a-Hugo-award category, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. At the time I was too busy to review, and then recently I was a little confused to see it up on NetGalley but jumped at the.
This is the premise of Ramez Naam's brilliant science fiction trilogy. In Nexus, the first of the three novels, Naam explores the circumstances in which the conflict between humans and post-humans emerges into the open. Although the book is unquestionably imaginative, it is far from fantasy. Ramez Naam takes this technological development and explores how the world wou The killer app (or key idea) of Apex (and the series as a whole) is the existence of Nexus, a drug which allows one to access and manipulate the human brain like a computer operating system. Ramez Naam 9 Feb, 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.
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