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The transhumanist wager by zoltan istvan, paperback barnes. Zoltan istvan gyurko, professionally known as zoltan istvan born march 30, 1973, is an american transhumanist, journalist, entrepreneur and futurist formerly a reporter for the national geographic channel, istvan now writes futurist, transhumanist, secular and politicalthemed articles for major media, including the new york times, vices motherboard, wired, the huffington post, techcrunch. With his popular 2016 us presidential run as a science candidate, bestselling book the transhumanist wager, and speeches at institutions. That said, zoltan has since denied the book comprises such a manifesto.
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Zoltan istvan the future of politics and transhumanism. Scorned by over 500 publishers and literary agents around the world, his philosophical thriller has been called revolutionary and socially. He worked as a war zone journalist with national geographic, he sailed the world by himself, he wrote a controversial bestselling novel called the transhumanist wager, and now writes columns for vice, huffington post, and psychology today. He is also running for governor of california for the libertarian party on a platform pushing science and. I will be posting essays on various topics related to my book, zoltan s book, and his ideas that come up during the writing process. He wrote a novel in 20 called the transhumanist wager.
Serious wonder asked zoltan what he hopes to accomplish with. Jul 03, 20 zoltan istvan has written a very powerful book called the transhumanist wager. May 29, 2014 zoltan istvan begins speaking about the transhumanist wager at transhumanism and futurist events. It was a first place winner in visionary fiction at the international book awards. At the age of 21, americanhungarian zoltan istvan began a solo, multiyear sailing journey around the world. For anyone interested in the future of humanity umm that should be all of you this is a must read. Meet the cyborg whos running against donald trump for president. His political campaign, his immortality bus tour and his book the transhumanist wager, have managed to get a huge amount of global media coverage and stir a debate.
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