All aboard the Immortality Bus: the man who says tech will help us live forever

Zoltan Istvan leads the Transhumanist party and believes that, through science, humans will reverse ageing and eventually death. Can he convert the skeptics?

"I've been pegged as the antichrist, which I felt was a little unfair," says Zoltan Istvan, the leader of the Transhumanist party and independent presidential candidate.

Istvan, a 43-year-old science fiction writer and futurist, has spent almost two years spreading his transhumanist agenda, which is to put science, health and technology at the forefront of America's politics. Like all transhumanists, Istvan believes that through scientific advancement, humans will be able to reverse ageing and eventually death.