{"id":26896,"date":"2016-06-15T09:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/zoltan-istvan-2016-lets-make-americans-immortal"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:12","slug":"zoltan-istvan-2016-lets-make-americans-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/zoltan-istvan-2016-lets-make-americans-immortal","title":{"rendered":"Zoltan Istvan 2016: Let\u2019s make Americans immortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zoltan-istvan-2016-lets-make-americans-immortal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA Today story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As co-writer for USA TODAY\u2019S \u201cFor the Record,\u201d I\u2019ve been writing about the campaigns of Republican, Democratic, Libertarian and Green presidential candidates since the newsletter\u2019s launch last summer. But the first presidential candidate to reach out to me was Zoltan Istvan, the Mill Valley, California-based Transhumanist Party candidate who foresees the merger of humans and technology in the very near future. I spoke by phone with Istvan last week.<\/p>\n<p>Big promises are the hallmark of presidential campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Newt Gingrich said <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2012\/01\/newt-gingrich-space-mars-florida-\/1#.V2DVjrsrLIU\">he\u2019d make the moon the 51st state by 2020<\/a>. Bernie Sanders has proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/college.usatoday.com\/2015\/10\/04\/bernie-sanders-talks-free-public-college-political-revolution-at-boston-rally\/\">free college education<\/a> for every American. Donald Trump has promised to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/2015\/06\/16\/28817509\/\">build a 1,900-mile wall<\/a> on the border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Transhumanist Party candidate Zoltan Istvan wants to conquer death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/06\/15\/zoltan-istvan-2016-lets-make-americans-immortal\/85909236\/\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/06\/15\/zolta...\/85909236\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today story: As co-writer for USA TODAY\u2019S \u201cFor the Record,\u201d I\u2019ve been writing about the campaigns of Republican, Democratic, Libertarian and Green presidential candidates since the newsletter\u2019s launch last summer. But the first presidential candidate to reach out to me was Zoltan Istvan, the Mill Valley, California-based Transhumanist Party candidate who foresees the merger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,269,1512,8,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-mobile-phones","category-space","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896","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=26896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67208,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896\/revisions\/67208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}