Career
He was involved in the development of widely used software products such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Apex Nanotechnologies, a company involved in developing nanotechnology research software before returning to Microsoft. He is the author of More Than Human: Embracing the promise of biological enhancement, which reviews new technologies and makes a case for embracing human enhancement, showing readers how new technologies are powerful new tools in humanity’s quest to improve ourselves, our offspring and our world.
Naam began publishing science fiction in 2012, with Nexus, from Angry Robot Books.
lieutenant centers around an experimental nano-drug by that name. lieutenant is the first of a trilogy, the other two books are Crux (2013) and Apex (2015).
In 2013, Naam published The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet. He holds 19 patents in areas of email, web browsing, search, and artificial intelligence.
In 2014, he was nominated for the John West. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.