{"id":57732,"date":"2017-05-27T07:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T14:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/radicals-outsiders-changing-the-world-2"},"modified":"2017-05-27T07:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T14:42:29","slug":"radicals-outsiders-changing-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/radicals-outsiders-changing-the-world-2","title":{"rendered":"Radicals \u2014 Outsiders changing the world"},"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\/771t4DYaPqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Bartlett\u2019s new book Radicals features #transhumanism in his opening chapter. He\u2019s on a book tour and discusses his time on the Immortality Bus for about 10 minutes in this video below:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Society is badly served by the limited set of ideas which occupy our cultural mainstream. To cope with the increasing pace of change, we need big new ideas. Where might these ideas come from?<\/p>\n<p>In this London Futurists presentation, Jamie Bartlett, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, shared his thoughts on a number of \u201cradical\u201d outsiders \u2014 a variety of individuals, groups and movements who reject the way we live now, and who are attempting to find alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on material from his recent book, \u201cRadicals: Outsiders changing the world\u201d, the talk gives particular attention to: Zoltan Istvan, Transhumanist Party candidate for the US President; Tommy Robinson of Pegida UK; and and V\u00edt Jedli\u010dka, the founder of the self-declared libertarian micronation Liberland.<\/p>\n<p>The event was chaired by David Wood. The camera was operated by Kiran Manam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/radicals-outsiders-changing-the-world-2\">Continue reading \u201cRadicals \u2014 Outsiders changing the world\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Bartlett\u2019s new book Radicals features #transhumanism in his opening chapter. He\u2019s on a book tour and discusses his time on the Immortality Bus for about 10 minutes in this video below: Society is badly served by the limited set of ideas which occupy our cultural mainstream. To cope with the increasing pace of change, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57732","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=57732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}