Zoltan Istvan is many things: a journalist, a futurist and entrepreneur. Mostly, though, he's been a cheerleader for the transhumanist movement, a philosophy focused on merging humans with technology.

Maitreya One, a black futurist and hip-hop artist living in Harlem, steps off the Greyhound bus on a warm morning in Montgomery, Alabama. Wearing sunglasses and a backwards-facing baseball hat, he ...

Many people think of transhumanism — the belief that humans can evolve through science and tech — as a secular movement. For the most part it is, but there are a number of organizations that aim to ...

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Zoltan Istvan is very worried about the superintelligent machines. He says the war over artificial intelligence will be worse than the Cold War nuclear arms race — much worse. It will be far more ...

It is difficult to define, but it’s a growing movement. Transhumanism has its own central organization (Humanity+), its own demographic base (Silicon Valley), even its own political formation (the ...

Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist journalist, is running for the U.S. presidency as a Republican in 2020, challenging President Donald Trump in the primary. His campaign policies for 2020 range from the ...

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Curiously haired entertainment personality and Republican Party Presidential Nominee Donald Trump has hacked the electoral process. After an unconventional, unexpected run to 1,543 delegates, he ...

A FORMER American presidential candidate and self-described ‘transhumanist’ says humans will soon live forever by downloading themselves onto ‘the cloud’. Zoltan Istvan believes human consciousness ...