{"id":71187,"date":"2017-07-22T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/zoltan-istvan-the-poster-boy-for-immortality"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:21","slug":"zoltan-istvan-the-poster-boy-for-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/zoltan-istvan-the-poster-boy-for-immortality","title":{"rendered":"Zoltan Istvan: the poster boy for immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zoltan-istvan-the-poster-boy-for-immortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really excited to announce a 5-page feature spread on my #transhumanism work and Libertarian Governor campaign in today\u2019s Times of London Magazine, one of England\u2019s oldest and largest papers. There\u2019s a paywall for digital but I think you can get two articles free without registering. If you have access to the print, it\u2019s in the magazine:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Zoltan Istvan is launching his campaign to become Libertarian governor of California with two signature policies. First, he\u2019ll eliminate poverty with a universal basic income that will guarantee $5,000 (\u00a33,800) per month for every Californian household for ever. (He\u2019ll do this without raising taxes a dime, he promises.) The next item in his in-tray is eliminating death. He intends to divert trillions of dollars into life-extending technologies \u2013 robotic hearts, artificial exoskeletons, genetic editing, bionic limbs and so on \u2013 in the hope that each Californian man, woman and AI (artificial intelligence) will eventually be able to upload their consciousness to the Cloud and experience digital eternity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we can experience as a human being is going to be dramatically different within two decades,\u201d he\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/zoltan-istvan-the-poster-boy-for-immortality-lrbx66lqn\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/zoltan-istvan-the-poster-...-lrbx66lqn<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m really excited to announce a 5-page feature spread on my #transhumanism work and Libertarian Governor campaign in today\u2019s Times of London Magazine, one of England\u2019s oldest and largest papers. There\u2019s a paywall for digital but I think you can get two articles free without registering. If you have access to the print, it\u2019s in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,39,412,269,13,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-economics","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-open-access","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71187","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=71187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71260,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71187\/revisions\/71260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}