{"id":79232,"date":"2018-06-02T02:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T09:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/this-smartphone-pioneer-is-fighting-to-create-a-transhumanist-superdemocracy"},"modified":"2018-06-02T02:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T09:42:21","slug":"this-smartphone-pioneer-is-fighting-to-create-a-transhumanist-superdemocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/this-smartphone-pioneer-is-fighting-to-create-a-transhumanist-superdemocracy","title":{"rendered":"This Smartphone Pioneer Is Fighting to Create a Transhumanist Superdemocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-smartphone-pioneer-is-fighting-to-create-a-transhumanist-superdemocracy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a philosophy best exemplified by Wood\u2019s book released last month, Transcending Politics: A Technoprogressive Roadmap to a Comprehensively Better Future, which starts by declaring politics \u201cbroken,\u201d technology as something that \u201crisks making matters worse,\u201d and deems transhumanism the force that can fix it all \u201ccomprehensively\u201d:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>David Wood, a transhumanist who co-founded Symbian in 1998, is working to develop a transhumanist superdemocracy that uses the best parts of artificial intelligence and communication to draw on the likes of Zoltan Istvan and Peter Thiel in a new movement to create longevity and sustainable abundance for all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45069-smartphone-pioneer-david-wood-transhumanism-superdemocracy\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45069-smartphone-pioneer-dav...rdemocracy<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a philosophy best exemplified by Wood\u2019s book released last month, Transcending Politics: A Technoprogressive Roadmap to a Comprehensively Better Future, which starts by declaring politics \u201cbroken,\u201d technology as something that \u201crisks making matters worse,\u201d and deems transhumanism the force that can fix it all \u201ccomprehensively\u201d: David Wood, a transhumanist who co-founded Symbian in 1998, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,17,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79232","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}