{"id":31399,"date":"2016-10-26T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/worried-about-rights-for-cyborgs-theres-a-write-in-candidate-for-that"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:11","slug":"worried-about-rights-for-cyborgs-theres-a-write-in-candidate-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/worried-about-rights-for-cyborgs-theres-a-write-in-candidate-for-that","title":{"rendered":"Worried about rights for cyborgs? There\u2019s a write-in candidate for that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worried-about-rights-for-cyborgs-theres-a-write-in-candidate-for-that.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Politico: Write a transhumanist in in New York! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2016\/10\/new-yorkers-have-a-wide-variety-of-presidential-candidates-to-write-in-106729\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2016\/10\u2026-in-106729<\/a> #transhumanism #Election2016 #ScienceCandidate<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ALBANY \u2014 While Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have debated issues such as immigration, gun control, and health care, neither of them has weighed in on the topic of a bill of rights for cyborgs.<\/p>\n<p>Voters chagrined by that oversight do, however, have another option.<\/p>\n<p>Story Continued Below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoltanistvan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zoltan Istvan<\/a> thinks that not-too-distant technology will make it possible for humans to live for up to 10,000 years, and he\u2019s running as the Transhumanist Party\u2019s presidential candidate in order to bring public attention to the need to speed up this process and prepare for the eventual societal impacts of immortality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2016\/10\/new-yorkers-have-a-wide-variety-of-presidential-candidates-to-write-in-106729\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2016\/10...-in-106729<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: Write a transhumanist in in New York! http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2016\/10\u2026-in-106729 #transhumanism #Election2016 #ScienceCandidate ALBANY \u2014 While Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have debated issues such as immigration, gun control, and health care, neither of them has weighed in on the topic of a bill of rights for cyborgs. Voters chagrined by that oversight do, however, have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,5,1495,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-geopolitics","category-health","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399","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=31399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65918,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions\/65918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}