{"id":34489,"date":"2017-02-13T09:24:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/transhumanist-politician-wants-to-run-for-governor-of-california"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:18","slug":"transhumanist-politician-wants-to-run-for-governor-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/transhumanist-politician-wants-to-run-for-governor-of-california","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist politician wants to run for governor of California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new story out on Engadget, emphasizing the need to make government treat science and technology as a primary focus:<\/p>\n

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Zoltan Istvan didn\u2019t have much of a chance at being president, but that didn\u2019t stop him from campaigning as the Transhumanist Party\u2019s candidate<\/a> to promote his pro-technology and science positions. Now, he\u2019s setting his sights a bit lower, and with a different party. Istvan announced this morning<\/a> that he plans to run for governor of California in 2018 under the Libertarian Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need leadership that is willing to use radical science, technology, and innovation\u2014what California is famous for\u2014to benefit us all,\u201d he wrote in a Newsweek article. \u201cWe need someone with the nerve to risk the tremendous possibilities to save the environment through bioengineering, to end cancer by seeking a vaccine or a gene-editing solution for it, to embrace startups that will take California from the world\u2019s 7th largest economy to maybe even the largest economy\u2014bigger than the rest of America altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we spoke to him in November<\/a>, Istvan made it clear that he would be looking at the Libertarian Party if he were to run for president again. Not only does he identify as libertarian, he also saw the benefit of working with a more established political party, instead of starting one from the ground up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing I learned from my presidential campaign is that this is a team sport,\u201d Istvan said in an email. \u201cWithout the proper managers, volunteers, spokespeople, and supporters, it\u2019s really impossible to make a dent in an election. That\u2019s part of the reason I joined the Libertarian Party for my governor run. They have tens of thousands of active supporters in California alone, so my election begins with real resources and infrastructure to draw upon. That\u2019s a large difference from my Presidential campaign, where we essentially were shoe-stringing it the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A new story out on Engadget, emphasizing the need to make government treat science and technology as a primary focus: Zoltan Istvan didn\u2019t have much of a chance at being president, but that didn\u2019t stop him from campaigning as the Transhumanist Party\u2019s candidate to promote his pro-technology and science positions. Now, he\u2019s setting his sights [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,39,412,5,1759,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-genetics","category-geopolitics","category-governance","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34489","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=34489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58753,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34489\/revisions\/58753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}