{"id":72519,"date":"2017-09-14T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/theres-no-need-to-fear-a-robot-taking-your-job-not-if-you-become-one-yourself"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:26","slug":"theres-no-need-to-fear-a-robot-taking-your-job-not-if-you-become-one-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/theres-no-need-to-fear-a-robot-taking-your-job-not-if-you-become-one-yourself","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no need to fear a robot taking your job \u2013 not if you become one yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-no-need-to-fear-a-robot-taking-your-job-not-if-you-become-one-yourself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new article recently out discussing issues of #transhumanism:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hello reader, are you trans? Transhuman, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not, but one day you might be \u2013 or, failing that, your kids or grandkids. In what is very much a \u2018guest\u2019 piece for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-growing-world-of-libertarian-transhumanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>American Conservative<\/i><\/a>, Zoltan Istvan \u2013 the Libertarian candidate for Governor of California \u2013 explains his transhumanist vision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026transhumanism is the international movement of using science and technology to radically change the human being and experience. Its primary goal is to deliver and embrace a utopian techno-optimistic world\u2014a world that consists of biohackers, cyborgists, roboticists, life extension advocates, cryonicists, Singularitarians, and other science-devoted people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s no need to fear a robot taking your job \u2013 not if you become one yourself!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2017\/09\/theres-no-need-fear-robot-taking-job-not-become-one\/\">https:\/\/unherd.com\/2017\/09\/theres-no-need-fear-robot-taking-job-not-become-one\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article recently out discussing issues of #transhumanism: Hello reader, are you trans? Transhuman, that is. Probably not, but one day you might be \u2013 or, failing that, your kids or grandkids. In what is very much a \u2018guest\u2019 piece for the American Conservative, Zoltan Istvan \u2013 the Libertarian candidate for Governor of California [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,269,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72519","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=72519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72561,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72519\/revisions\/72561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}