{"id":18132,"date":"2015-10-05T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/why-im-running-for-president-and-got-a-chip-implanted-in-my-hand"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:34:09","slug":"why-im-running-for-president-and-got-a-chip-implanted-in-my-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/why-im-running-for-president-and-got-a-chip-implanted-in-my-hand","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m running for president\u2014and got a chip implanted in my hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7OdeGwcpEJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-im-running-for-president-and-got-a-chip-implanted-in-my-hand.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My new and first article for The Daily Dot. It\u2019s about transhumanism and the Immortality Bus tour:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>BY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoltan_istvan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">ZOLTAN ISTVAN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though I was born after the 1960s, I\u2019ve always been fascinated with that era. Some people credit<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2011\/aug\/06\/lsd-ken-kesey-pranksters-film\" target=\"_blank\"> Ken Kesey\u2019s<\/a> cross country bus trip aboard colorfully painted \u201cFurther\u201d as helping to create a generation of hippies. Of course, my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.immortalitybus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Immortality Bus<\/a> (shaped to look like a coffin) wants to stir up the national consciousness as well, aiming to usher in its own cultural shift. Whereas the \u201860s were about peace, love, drugs, and sex, I believe the next decade will be about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/virtual-reality\/\" target=\"_self\">virtual reality<\/a>, implants, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/tags\/transhumanism\/\" target=\"_self\">transhumanism<\/a>, and overcoming death with science. For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/technology\/transhumanism-immortality-bus-tour\/\" target=\"_self\">futurists like myself<\/a>, that\u2019s quite an intoxicating mix.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that a lot of radical tech, science, and medicine are already here in America. Consider that today the paralyzed can walk via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/technology\/rewalk-trevor-greene-exoskeleton\/\" target=\"_self\">exoskeleton suits<\/a>, the blind can see via<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/bionic-eyes-can-already-restore-vision-soon-theyll-mak-1669758713\" target=\"_blank\"> bionic eyes<\/a>, and the limbless can grab a bottle of water and drink with artificial limbs that connect to their nervous system. Additionally, lifespans are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/609104\/Brits-living-older-100-years-old-health-medicine-housing\" target=\"_blank\"> increasing<\/a> for people all around the planet. Science is rapidly making the world a better place, and it\u2019s starting to eliminate suffering and hardship for billions of people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/opinion\/zoltan-istvan-rfid-chip-implant\/?tw=dd\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new and first article for The Daily Dot. It\u2019s about transhumanism and the Immortality Bus tour: BY ZOLTAN ISTVAN Even though I was born after the 1960s, I\u2019ve always been fascinated with that era. Some people credit Ken Kesey\u2019s cross country bus trip aboard colorfully painted \u201cFurther\u201d as helping to create a generation of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,5,269,1901,1501,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-sex","category-transhumanism-2","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64005,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132\/revisions\/64005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}