How Far Would You Go to Stay Alive?
How Far Would You Go to Stay Alive?
American government (general), Biotechnology, Robotics
This is the story of America’s zaniest presidential candidate - who wants to turn the whole population into cyborgs.
It's a true story… stranger than fiction.
“Don’t stand there!”
Zoltan almost stepped on a landmine. He was in Vietnam, reporting for National Geographic.
If his guide hadn’t warned him--he’d be dead.
Zoltan didn’t want to die. Who does?
But Zoltan realized something else just then. He didn’t want to die ever… In fact, he didn’t want anyone to die ever again.
It’s an idea he’s been pushing now for years. He’s a leader in the “transhumanism” movement, which wants to merge humans with machines.
Zoltan drove a bus shaped like a coffin across the US, to teach people about the new frontiers of science that mean death is not inevitable.
His presidential campaigns have attracted global attention...
Imagine there were no diseases, because science had cured them all. Imagine storing your mind in a computer… Living longer than you ever expected--for hundreds of years.
This is the extraordinary story of Zoltan’s war on death.
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There are only a few people in the world who are experts on how futurist issues and libertarian philosophy collide. Dr. Ben Murnane is one of them. His personal journey--battling a rare genetic illness, Fanconi anemia, and low life expectancy--also gives him a unique and urgent perspective on life-extension and transhumanist issues. After introducing transhumanism to hundreds of millions of people through my writings and political campaigns, I was looking for a biographer to objectively capture how my activism has upended the status quo of the futurist world. Dr. Murnane was the perfect fit to objectively write this story for the first time. ~ Zoltan Istvan
Libertarianism, posthumanism and politics, longevity and life extension, together in one life story… document[s]… the individual instinct and societal need to push through the limits of human possibility… Can Istvan’s transhumanist approach convince [people] to adopt rather than eschew advanced technologies?... Perhaps a first step is to understand where his philosophy comes from…before it is too late. ~ Tracey Follows, Top 50 Female Futurist, Forbes
A taste of Istvan’s vision, which… may prove to be transformative for our culture, if not prophetic for all of humanity ~ Peter Clarke, Merion West
A New Book All Science Enthusiasts Should Read ~ Maitreya One, Church and State
Istvan's life and campaigning is explored in Transhumanist Citizen: Zoltan Istvan's Hunt for Immortality, a book by Ben Murnane who was born in 1984 with a rare bone marrow disease that in 2008 came with an average life expectancy of 22-years, making his interest in life extension deeply personal. ~ James Bickerton, Newsweek
This is the extraordinary story of Zoltan’s war on death and from start to finish Transhuman Citizen by author Ben Murnane is engrossing, informatively sculpted, freshly original, and above all, an enticing read that is hard to put down at any time (I read it cover to cover in just three sittings). ~ Exclusive Magazine , FULL REVIEW - https://annecarlini.com/ex_books.php?id=681
“An expansive and thought-provoking biography… Istvan's life resembles an epic story… Murnane's adept storytelling encourages readers to embark on a journey focused on both the possibilities of the future and the unwavering determination of one man to turn those possibilities into reality” ~ Carol Thompson, Readers' Favorite
