Zoltan Istvan is a Libertarian candidate for California Governor in 2018, and is likely to run in 2020 for the Libertarian presidential nomination. He is considered one the world’s leading transhumanists after his popular run in the 2016 US Presidential race as a science and technology candidate. Zoltan began his futurist career by publishing The Transhumanist Wager, an award-winning bestseller in philosophy that has been compared many times to Ayn Rand’s work. Zoltan is also a leading technology journalist, a successful entrepreneur, and a former filmmaker and on-camera reporter for the National Geographic Channel. His futurist work and promotion of radical science has reached hundreds of millions of people. He has spoken at places like the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, Microsoft, and Harvard. Breitbart wrote, “Istvan is a dynamic personality, as polarizing as he is engaging.” The New York Times wrote that Zoltan has “a plausibly presidential aura.”