{"id":9586,"date":"2013-12-23T23:54:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T07:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:20:24","slug":"its-the-10th-anniversary-of-battlestar-galactica-and-its-more-relevant-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/its-the-10th-anniversary-of-battlestar-galactica-and-its-more-relevant-than-ever","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the 10th Anniversary of Battlestar Galactica. And it\u2019s more relevant than ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.miles_brundage.html\" rel=\"author\">Miles Brundage<\/a> \u2014 Slate<\/p>\n<div class=\"text parbase section\">\n<p><span class=\"drop-capped\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop-capped\">T<\/span>en years ago this month, a reimagined version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00GX7D5G0\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">\u201970s science fiction series <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em><\/a> began as a three-hour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00064AFBE\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">miniseries<\/a> on the Sci-Fi Channel. (This was before the \u201cSyfy\u201d nonsense.) The critically acclaimed show ended up running for four seasons. Many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1405178140\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">articles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1405178140\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0786465506\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a> have already been written about the enduring relevance of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B002HGVUB8\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/em>\u2019s religious and political themes\u2014at least one of which, the dilemmas associated with a secretive national security state, is just as timely today as it was during the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text parbase section\">\n<p>But another key element of the show\u2014the long-term societal risks associated with the development of intelligent machines\u2014is even more relevant today than it was in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2013\/12\/battlestar_galactica_10th_anniversary_how_the_show_predicted_today_s_ai.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Miles Brundage \u2014 Slate Ten years ago this month, a reimagined version of the \u201970s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica began as a three-hour miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel. (This was before the \u201cSyfy\u201d nonsense.) The critically acclaimed show ended up running for four seasons. Many articles and books have already been written about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-human-trajectories","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47336,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions\/47336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}