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Transhumanist politics constitute a political ideology that expresses the belief in technology's potential to perfect the individual. Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan claims that the transhumanism movement aims to improve humanity with technology and science, and he gives life extension and human enhancement as examples of transhumanists' ideas. Jeanine Thweatt-Bates considers it impossible to define transhumanist politics as one set of beliefs, as the transhumanist movement includes opposing political perspectives on the "central issue" of regulating technology. James Hughes has noted the dynamic between left-leaning and right-leaning visions for transhumanism and the future of technology and human enhancement. ==History== James Hughes describes transhumanist politics as a part of a three-hundred-year-long history that began in the Age of Enlightenment, when people began to advocate for democracy and individual rights and use science and technology instead of magic and superstition. Hughes has also detailed the political currents in transhumanism, particularly the shift around 2009 from socialist transhumanism to libertarian and anarcho-capitalist transhumanism.〔 He claims that the Left was pushed out of the World Transhumanist Association Board of Directors, and that libertarians and Singularitarians have secured a hegemony in the transhumanism community with help from Peter Thiel, but Hughes remains optimistic about a techoprogressive future.〔 In 2012, when active transhumanist Giuseppe Vatinno was elected into Italian Parliament, ''New Scientist'' dubbed him "the world's first transhumanist politician". Also in 2012, the Longevity Party, a movement described as "100% transhumanist" by cofounder Maria Konovalenko, began to organize in Russia for building a balloted political party. Another Russian programme, the 2045 Initiative was founded in 2012 by billionaire Dmitry Itskov with its own "Evolution 2045" political party advocating life extension and android avatars. In 2013, ''io9'' editor Annalee Newitz suggested building a Space Party devoted to developing space settlements and defending humanity against existential threats. Writing for ''H+ Magazine'' in July 2014, futurist Peter Rothman called Gabriel Rothblatt "very possibly the first openly transhumanist political candidate in the United States" when he ran as a candidate for the United States Congress. However, later reports in October of that year by Rothman state "Humanity+ board chair Natasha Vita-More was elected as a Councilperson for the 28th Senatorial District of Los Angeles in 1992 on an openly futurist and transhumanist platform." In October 2014, Zoltan Istvan announced that he is running in the 2016 United States presidential election under the banner of the "Transhumanist Party."〔 〕 Following Istvan's announcement, groups also using the name "Transhumanist Party" emerged in the United Kingdom〔 〕 and Germany. Istvan's campaign received media attention in summer 2015 when he drove a bus shaped like a coffin- the "Immortality Bus"- to Washington D.C. Istvan planned the bus tour to raise awareness of biological immortality. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Transhumanist politics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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