{"id":173601,"date":"2016-09-06T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/u-s-navy-held-meetings-with-transhumanist-to-discuss\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:06:27","slug":"u-s-navy-held-meetings-with-transhumanist-to-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/transhumanist\/u-s-navy-held-meetings-with-transhumanist-to-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Held Meetings With Transhumanist to Discuss &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    By     Joseph Jankowski  <\/p>\n<p>    The U.S. Navy has held meetings with American presidential    hopeful and TranshumanistZoltan Istvan to discuss    thepossibility of implanting humans with microchips    fitted with global positioning (GPS) technology,     reports The Sun.  <\/p>\n<p>    AccordingtoVice Admiral Wisecup, who has retired    from full-time service to work in a Navy department called the        Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, the    meeting broadened our understanding of the merger of humans    and machines.  <\/p>\n<p>    A bunch of navy officers came to my house and one of the main    topics was this chip implant strategy, Transhumanist and    Futurist Istvan said.  <\/p>\n<p>    Zoltan Istvan is currently running for president of the United    States as a part of the Transhumanist Party.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Transhumanist Party aims 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.  <\/p>\n<p>    Istvan told The Sun that the Navy is worried that    soldiers could enter service with chips already implanted into    them and is struggling to create policy around this issue.  <\/p>\n<p>    You can imagine how challenging that would be if someone had a    non-authorized chip implant on a nuclear base, so policy has to    be created and created soon, says Istvan.  <\/p>\n<p>      I helped the US Navy do some policy work on this      issue.    <\/p>\n<p>    The presidential candidate     believes that within 10 to 15 years, artificial    intelligence will advance to the point of solving all of    civilizations most vexing problems, including death, and he    has even traveled around America in an immortality bus mocked    up like a coffin to promote his ideas.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to    Istvan, themilitary has already experimented with    chipping soldiers so they can be tracked.  <\/p>\n<p>    Its crazy to me that we dont develop it and use it in    ourselves (humans) more, and especially in our children, says    the Transhumanist.  <\/p>\n<p>    Istvan believes that GPS    microchipping could be beneficial to parents who want to be    able to keep track of their children and could have allowed    investigators to find the     body of Lane Graves, who was killed in an alligator attack,    in just a matter of minutes.  <\/p>\n<p>    As a father of a twoand five-year-old, Im a big    believer in the future that all children will get chipped,    perhaps like all children get vaccines in the US, Istvan told    The Sun.  <\/p>\n<p>    Joseph Jankowski is a contributor for Planet Free Will.com. His    works have been published by recognizable alternative news    sites like GlobalResearch.ca, ActivistPost.com, Mintpressnews.com    andZeroHedge.com.  <\/p>\n<p>    FollowPlanet Free Will    <a href=\"mailto:onTwitter@twitter.com\">onTwitter@twitter.com<\/a>\/PlanetFreeWill  <\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to our newsletter  The Information    Leak  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2016\/06\/navy-met-with-transhumanist-to-microchip-humans.html\" title=\"U.S. Navy Held Meetings With Transhumanist to Discuss ...\">U.S. Navy Held Meetings With Transhumanist to Discuss ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Joseph Jankowski The U.S.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/transhumanist\/u-s-navy-held-meetings-with-transhumanist-to-discuss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}