{"id":35136,"date":"2017-03-07T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/zoltan-istvan-wants-to-create-superpeople-oh-and-also-be-californias-governor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:55","slug":"zoltan-istvan-wants-to-create-superpeople-oh-and-also-be-californias-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/zoltan-istvan-wants-to-create-superpeople-oh-and-also-be-californias-governor","title":{"rendered":"Zoltan Istvan Wants to Create Superpeople \u2014Oh, and Also Be California\u2019s Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zoltan-istvan-wants-to-create-superpeople-oh-and-also-be-californias-governor.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a long-form interview on Medium\u2019s Defiant of my run for California Governor. It covers many subjects (Trump, gene editing, basic income), as well as why I think technology is ready to change politics and governance forever:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/Patreon.com\/ajairaj\" data-href=\"http:\/\/Patreon.com\/ajairaj\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noopener noopener nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJAI RAJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before. It\u2019s 2015, and the ever-humming machinery of American presidential politics is picking up steam. The American political machine runs on steam, okay? It\u2019s very old.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the predictable, claustrophobic sameness of the political duopoly \u2014 with naked oligarchy on one side and an ostensibly friendlier, more diverse oligarchy on the other \u2014 emerges a candidate with some new ideas. Oh, maybe not <em class=\"\">completely <\/em>new ideas, but wild ideas, fresh ideas, ideas long thought to be unpalatable to the American political mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas like free college for everybody, a universal basic income, or UBI \u2026 and abolishing death once and for all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/defiant\/zoltan-istvan-wants-to-create-superpeople-oh-and-also-be-californias-governor-beccc6ba4b6b#.kf9hwwm6n\">https:\/\/medium.com\/defiant\/zoltan-istvan-wants-to-create-sup....kf9hwwm6n<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a long-form interview on Medium\u2019s Defiant of my run for California Governor. It covers many subjects (Trump, gene editing, basic income), as well as why I think technology is ready to change politics and governance forever: By AJAI RAJ Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before. It\u2019s 2015, and the ever-humming machinery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,39,1759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136","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=35136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58473,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136\/revisions\/58473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}