Welcome to the original & historic website of the Transhumanist Party® Dear friends, supporters, & anyone interested, I founded the Transhumanist Party on October 7, 2014. For over two years, I led its growth as its Chairman and its nominated 2016 US Presidential candidate. During that time, the party surprised everyone and become a prominent political entity that tens of millions of people heard about--likely trafficking 5th overall of all formal political parties in the 2016 US elections. The party appeared in many places--from a speech in the World Bank, to an AMA on 9 million member Reddit Futurology, to protesting the RNC and DNC conventions, to doing an interview with underground group Anonymous, to doing the opening keynote at the Financial Times Camp Alphaville, to consulting with the US Navy, to being included in the US Archives, to traveling for months across America on the Immortality Bus, to routinely appearing on major television networks. For the first time in history, the Transhumanist Party gave science, health, and technology a political voice with clear and original policy. After completing my 2016 US Presidential campaign, I voluntarily stepped down from Chairman of the party and designated new leadership. The new leaders and the new party website can be found here: www.transhumanist-party.org Below are screen shots taken from a tablet of the historic and original Transhumanist Party website (November 9, 2016). Also, included in its adapted form below of the original site, is the "About" page, the "Platform" page (Zoltan Istvan's 20-point plan), and the "Transhumanist Bill of Rights" page (as delivered to the US Capitol on the Immortality Bus in December 2015). Finally, I want to thank all the advisors, volunteers, donors, officers, and supporters who have made the Transhumanist Party into something important. Sincerely, Zoltan Istvan info@zoltanistvan.com www.zoltanistvan.com |
Essential reading/viewing of Zoltan Istvan's original Transhumaist Party The Huffington Post founding Party article The Gizmodo OpEd Why I'm running for President article Fusion's 11-min video on the Transhumanist Party The Vice Motherboard What I learned running for President The Vice Motherboard Why Revolutionary Politics is Needed |
ABOUT Welcome to the official site of the Transhumanist Party, an American political organization dedicated to putting science, health, and technology at the forefront of United States politics. We aim to uphold the energy and political might of millions of transhumanist advocates out there who desire to use science and technology to significantly improve their lives. The Transhumanist Party is politically-centric and aims to support its candidates and voters with future-inspired policies that will enrich America and the world. We believe science and technology can solve most of the world's problems. Many of the party's core ideas and goals can be found in the Platform page and in the founding party article in The Huffington Post. The Transhumanist Party was founded by futurist and philosopher Zoltan Istvan on October 7, 2014 as a nonprofit organization. Istvan is its 2016 US Presidential candidate, per a vote of the party's officers. Check out his Op-Ed in Gizmodo, his interview in Popular Science, and his video interview with the Financial Times. Istvan's Presidential campaign site is: www.zoltanistvan.com. The Transhumanist Party is operated and managed by the Transhumanist National Committee LLC. Even though the Transhumanist Party is young, it's already inspired many people, most who are ready for a major change in the landscape of American politics. Check out the calendar for a list of upcoming events, and please consider volunteering for the party or making a donation. Together we can vastly improve America and create the future we always wanted. |
PLATFORM The Transhumanist Party and Zoltan Istvan's US Presidential campaign aspires to be politically-centric. It aims to support voters with future-inspired policies that will enrich America and the world. We believe science and technology can solve most of the world's problems. Many of the party's core ideas and goals—as well as those of Zoltan Istvan's—campaign can be read in the founding party article in The Huffington Post or this Op-Ed in Gizmodo. Here's the more detailed platform below: 1) Implement a Transhumanist Bill of Rights advocating for legal and government support of longer lifespans, better health, and higher standards of living via science and technology. Designate aging as a disease. Lay groundwork for rights for other future advanced sapient beings like conscious robots and cyborgs. 2) Spread a pro-science culture by emphasizing reason and secular values. 3) Create stronger government awareness and policies to protect against existential risk (including artificial intelligence, plagues, asteroids, climate change, and nuclear warfare and disaster). 4) Reduce the size and cost of the government by streamlining operations with new technology. 5) Implement policy for the phasing out of all individual taxes base on robots taking most jobs in the next 25 years. Advocate for a flat tax until we reach that point. 6) Advocate for morphological freedom (the right to do anything to your body so long as it doesn't harm others). Defend genetic editing and other radical science that can transform health care. 7) Advocate for partial direct digital democracy using available new technologies. Implement a Ranked Voting System. 8) End costly drug war and legalize all drugs. Spend saved money on rehabilitation. 9) Create government where all politician’s original professions are represented equally (the government should not be run by 40% lawyers when lawyers represent less than 10% of the country’s jobs). Create government where women run half of country too. 10) Significantly lessen massive incarcerated population in America by using innovative technologies to monitor criminals outside of prison. Spend saved money on education. 11) Strongly emphasize and create radical green tech solutions to make planet healthier. 12) Because most jobs will be lost to robots and software in the next 30 years, support and draft logistics for a Universal Basic Income for every American (taking care to devise a plan that does not enlarge the government). A properly set up UBI could eliminate welfare, social security, and dozens of other major government programs. Over the extreme long term, consider possibility of a Resource Based Economy. 13) Dramatically enlarge US space exploration agenda with increased government and private resources. 14) Develop international consortium to create a "Transhumanist Olympics" 15) Encourage private industry to develop and support usage of a trauma alert implants or technology that notifies emergency crews of extreme trauma (this will significantly reduce domestic violence, crime, and tragedy in America). 16) Develop science and technology to be able to eliminate all disabilities in humans who have them. 17) Insist on campaign finance reform, limit lobbyist’s power, and include 3rd political parties in government. Implement term limits in all Government. Mandate real time public surveillance and transparency of Government. 18) Provide free public education at every level; advocate for mandatory college education and preschool in the age of far longer lifespans 19) Advocate for a more open and fair immigration policy, taking care to use technologies to help this. 20) Create a scientific and educational industrial complex in America instead of a military industrial complex. Spend money on wars against cancer, heart disease, and diabetes—not on wars in far-off countries |
TRANSHUMANIST BILL OF RIGHTS Presented to the United States Capitol on December 14, 2015 by Zoltan Istvan, founder and US Presidential candidate of the Transhumanist Party Preamble: Whereas science and technology are now radically changing human beings and may also create future forms of advanced sapient and sentient life, transhumanists establish this TRANSHUMANIST BILL OF RIGHTS to help guide and enact sensible policies in the pursuit of life, liberty, security of person, and happiness. Article 1. Human beings, sentient artificial intelligences, cyborgs, and other advanced sapient life forms are entitled to universal rights of ending involuntary suffering, making personhood improvements, and achieving an indefinite lifespan via science and technology. Article 2. Under penalty of law, no cultural, ethnic, or religious perspectives influencing government policy can impede life extension science, the health of the public, or the possible maximum amount of life hours citizens possess. Article 3. Human beings, sentient artificial intelligences, cyborgs, and other advanced sapient life forms agree to uphold morphological freedom—the right to do with one’s physical attributes or intelligence (dead, alive, conscious, or unconscious) whatever one wants so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. Article 4. Human beings, sentient artificial intelligences, cyborgs, and other advanced sapient life forms will take every reasonable precaution to prevent existential risk, including those of rogue artificial intelligence, asteroids, plagues, weapons of mass destruction, bioterrorism, war, and global warming, among others. Article 5. All nations and their governments will take all reasonable measures to embrace and fund space travel, not only for the spirit of adventure and to gain knowledge by exploring the universe, but as an ultimate safeguard to its citizens and transhumanity should planet Earth become uninhabitable or be destroyed. Article 6. Involuntary aging shall be classified as a disease. All nations and their governments will actively seek to dramatically extend the lives and improve the health of its citizens by offering them scientific and medical technologies to overcome involuntary aging. |
CALENDAR Oct. 7, 2014: Zoltan Istvan founds Transhumanist Party & publishes opening article in The Huffington Post Oct. 31, 2014: Extreme Tech publishes first major interview on the Transhumanist Party Nov. 15, 2014: A preliminary version of the Transhumanist Party website goes live Nov 2014: Zoltan Istvan debates Anarchist John Zerzan at Stanford University Dec. 3, 2014: Initial officers chosen for Transhumanist Party Dec. 8, 2014: Zoltan Istvan discusses the Transhumanist Party on the Joe Rogan Experience Dec. 23, 2014: The Telegraph runs a full feature story on the Transhumanist Party Dec 2014: Zoltan Istvan nominated as 2016 Transhumanist Party presidential candidate Jan. 1, 2015: You can now join us, volunteer, and make donations to the Transhumanist Party Feb. 6, 2015: Zoltan Istvan does interview on Reason TV Late-Feb. 2015: Specialized campaign for Transhumanist Party funding begins Feb 22, 2015: Istvan films with BBC America's comedy show Almost Royal as US Presidential candidate of Transhumanist Party Spring 2015: Transhumanist Party featured in major media: Gizmodo, Popular Science, Esquire, Digg, Yahoo! News & many others. Summer 2015: Transhumanist Party's Zoltan Istan keynote speaker in major events put on by Financial Times, World Bank, Coin Congress, & Microsoft. September 2015: Immortality Bus tour across America commences to help build support for the Transhumanist Party October 2015: Embedded journalists on the Immortality Bus from Vox, The Verge, Der Spiegel & many others highlight the party. November 2015: Front page story on BBC on Zoltan Istvan and Transhumanist Party reaches over a million readers. December 2015: Zoltan Istvan delivers a Transhumanist Bill of Rights to the US Capitol building. January 2016: Fusion TV feature on Zoltan Istvan and the Transhumanist Party airs. February 2016: Major Australian channel SBS airs 10-minute TV show on Zoltan Istvan's campaign in Los Angeles February 2016: Zoltan Istvan consults with US Navy March 2016: Zoltan Istvan discusses robot presidents and his campaign on CBC, which also aired on NPR, reaching a few million people April 2016: At Harvard University's Kennedy school, Zoltan Istvan speaks to Harvard Future Society May 2016: Transhumanist Party's Zoltan Istvan joins transhumanism panel at Digital Hollywood in Los Angeles on May 4th June 2016: Presidential candidate Istvan speaks at Augmented World Expo and BrainBar in Europe July 2016: Zoltan Istvan protests at GOP convention in Cleveland (Watch the Now This video on his campaign) July 216 Zoltan Istvan protests at Democratic convention in Philadelphia (Watch The Young Turks interview) August 2016: Zoltan Istvan presents transhumanism concepts at CNN Courageous panel for Dues Ex in New York City. August 2016: Zoltan Istvan speaks at RAAD Fesitval in San Diego August 2016: Article on Gary Johnson on Futurism by Zoltan Istvan, who interviewed to be his Libertarian Vice President September 2016: Zoltan Istvan pens San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed on Transhumanist Olympics; SFC video made on Transhumanist Party too Late September 2016: Zoltan Istvan speaks at RoboBusiness and is on BBC World Service with Prof. Lawrence Lessig September 2016: Zoltan Istvan appears on The Rubin Report September 30 2016: Zoltan Istvan gives transhumanism workshop and speech at University of Central Florida; CBC covered it October 2, 2016: Zoltan Istvan visits The Venus Project October 14, 2016: Zoltan Istvan interviews with Anonymous October 19 2016: Zoltan Istvan speaks at University of Baltimore October 2016: Zoltan Istvan gets profile on ISideWith & joins Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Evan McMullin on ISideWith online debate October 21, 2016: Zoltan Istvan does live Facebook interview at Now This and then attends Transhumanist Party meet-up in New York City November 2, 2016: Zoltan Istvan Reddit Futurology AMA November 8, 2016: Zoltan Istvan votes on election day |
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Zoltan Istvan wearing first Transhumanist Party t-shirt |
First original Transhumanist Party website -- October 2014 |
One of the first Transhumanist Party rallies -- San Francisco, 2015 |
"Zoltan Istvan is founder of the Transhumanist Party, a legally recognized and PR-minded political effort that calls attention to what tomorrow's mainstreaming of today's rapidly developing technology could mean for human life." -United Nations |