Do You Really Want to Live Forever?
Note to Self
WNYC Studios
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Americans voted. Now we can think way, way beyond 2016. The failed 2016 presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan (pretty convincingly) explains why you might live forever and vote for him and the Transhumanism party in 2040.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of people don't come out and say, oh, I want to conquer death. |
| 0:03.4 | And I think as technology increases, people become more comfortable with saying, I am |
| 0:08.6 | somebody who one day is okay with merging with the machine. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello, my friends. |
| 0:16.8 | It's no to self. |
| 0:19.0 | The tech show about being human. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm a new Samarote. |
| 0:23.0 | And at this very moment, as we are putting together this episode, Americans are going to vote |
| 0:29.0 | for their next president. |
| 0:30.8 | And today, we are thrilled to bring you an interview with one of the candidates. |
| 0:39.4 | You called it the gold standard of trade deals. |
| 0:41.6 | And, well, Donald, I know you live in your own reality, but that is no. |
| 0:47.4 | No, not either of those two. |
| 0:50.7 | This candidate aims to mix politics with science and technology in a way that has never been |
| 0:57.0 | done before. |
| 0:59.6 | His name is Zoltan Ishtban, and it's pretty unlikely that you voted for him. |
| 1:05.0 | But 20 years from now, when his ideas seem less far-fetched, who knows? |
| 1:10.5 | He could be your man. |
| 1:12.2 | There is the third party candidate running on a platform to help people live forever. |
| 1:17.4 | I think I'll definitely live indefinitely. |
| 1:19.4 | For the last two years, he's been driving around the country in a campaign bus shaped |
| 1:24.1 | like a casket, representing the transhumanist party. |
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