Forget Donald Trump, meet the only U.S presidential candidate promising immortality

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February 10, 2016 4:29 PM

Meet Zoltan Istvan, the only U.S presidential candidate promising immortality.

Forget Donald Trump, meet the only presidential candidate promising immortality

Forget the social media hullabaloo between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, and the debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, meet Zoltan Istvan, the only presidential candidate promising immortality.

Writer, journalist, philosopher and futurist Istvan has been staging the rather unusual campaign running for the Transhumanist Party, a movement that believes technology has the power to transform the human mind and body.

Transhumanists dream of achieving immortality and physical perfection through futuristic technologies like mind uploading, cyborg body augmentation, and genetic manipulation; they want us to evolve into a race of post-human super-beings.

While the other presidential candidates are claiming they know best how to deal with Iran, the economy, and immigration, Istvan is trying to appeal to the US electorate with more ambitious goals.

He wants to eradicate death, and for everyone in America to live forever.

Istvan is currently touring the US in what he calls the “Immortality Bus”: an old school bus converted to look like a huge coffin on wheels and paid for by an online crowdfunding campaign.

He’s using the bus to spread his vision of transhumanism, and so far people are falling in love with his ideas.

No one expects Zoltan Istvan to beat Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or any of the other major party candidates this November. Rather, Zoltan’s campaign is an awareness-raising exercise. It’s a way of saying: technology is changing human lives so much faster than politics, so let’s take it just as seriously.

Istvan is the founder and 2016 presidential candidate of the Transhumanist Party, He was born by Hungarian refugees, Ivy League educated, having studied philosophy and religious studies at Columbia University.

Watch his Transhumanist campaign video below.

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