{"id":79560,"date":"2018-06-11T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/june-1-2018"},"modified":"2018-06-12T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:38:34","slug":"june-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/june-1-2018","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist Technologies to Live Forever, Become Bionic and Build a Better Political System with Zoltan Istvan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/june-1-20183.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new 45 minute interview out on #transhumanism via Fringe FM:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Zoltan Istvan Gyurko (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoltan_istvan\">@zoltan_istvan<\/a><b>)<\/b> is an American transhumanist, <sup id=\u201d cite_ref-2\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><\/sup>journalist, <sup id=\u201d cite_ref-Telegraph_3-0\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><\/sup>entrepreneur and Libertarian futurist who ran for President of the United States in 2016 to raise awareness for transhumanism. In 2017, Istvan announced his intent to run for Governor of California in the 2018 election as a member of the Libertarian Party \u2013 see his website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoltanistvan.com\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoltanistvan.com\">zoltanistvan.com<\/a><\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, Istvan now writes futurist, transhumanist, libertarian and secular themed articles for major publications including Vice\u2019s Motherboard, Wired, The Huffington Post., TechCrunch and Newsweek. Istvan also regularly appears on television and video channels discussing futurist topics and is one of the world\u2019s most influential transhumanists \u2013 believing transhumanism will grow into a mainstream social movement in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Istvan is also the author of <a title=\"The Transhumanist Wager\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rQToIe\">The Transhumanist Wager<\/a>, a philosophical science fiction novel.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-vlarson_19-0\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/june-1-20183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fringe.fm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Its-a-matter-of-changing-the-peoples-ways-of-looking-at-the-world._.png?resize=300%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fringe.fm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Its-a-matter-of-changing-the-peoples-ways-of-looking-at-the-world._.png?resize=768%2C384 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fringe.fm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Its-a-matter-of-changing-the-peoples-ways-of-looking-at-the-world._.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fringe.fm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Its-a-matter-of-changing-the-peoples-ways-of-looking-at-the-world._.png?resize=500%2C250 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fringe.fm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Its-a-matter-of-changing-the-peoples-ways-of-looking-at-the-world._.png?resize=960%2C480 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px)  100vw, 850px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/fringe.fm\/3-transhumanist-technologies-to-live-forever-become-bionic-and-build-a-better-political-system-with-zoltan-istvan\/\">http:\/\/fringe.fm\/3-transhumanist-technologies-to-live-foreve...an-istvan\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new 45 minute interview out on #transhumanism via Fringe FM: Zoltan Istvan Gyurko (@zoltan_istvan) is an American transhumanist, journalist, entrepreneur and Libertarian futurist who ran for President of the United States in 2016 to raise awareness for transhumanism. In 2017, Istvan announced his intent to run for Governor of California in the 2018 election [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79560","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=79560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79565,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79560\/revisions\/79565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}