Summary: Stream the miniseries:<br><br> <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/childhoods-end-season-1/id1059590227?mt=4&at=1001l7hP" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">iTunes<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PA9De08lc0&list=ELdTnzwMBwj9yd7Tt4IHr1cA" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">YouTube<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Childhood’s End (SyFy miniseries)<br> What: Humanity is forced into utopia and it’s pretty sweet actually for a minute<br><br> Directed by: Nick Hurran<br><br> Starring: Mike Vogel, Julian McMahon, Charles Dance, Yael Stone, Daisy Betts<br> Recommended and Related Media<br> <br> Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke<br><br> The book on which the miniseries was based. Featuring basically the same story but with now-funny extrapolations of how technology would progress.<br><br> Read it with your ears <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/childhoods-end-unabridged/id294662989?mt=3&app=itunes&at=1001l7hP" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">iTunes<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> | <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Childhoods-End-Audiobook/B002V8L5FS" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Audible<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br><br> Read the paper book with your eyes like some backwards cave-person <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chldhoods-End-Arthur-C-Clarke/dp/B01CPSBYKY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1497711776&sr=8-1&keywords=chldhood's+end&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> <br> Show Notes<br> Arrival/First Contact<br> Aircraft shielding. Impressing upon humanity the futility of resistance.<br> Selecting Diplomats<br> Alien diplomatic moneyball.<br> They Know Us<br> Flawless colloquial earth languages. Cultural context. How to manipulate apes. Benevolent alien dictatorship.<br> Curbing Scientific Inquiry<br> Approaching utopia removing incentives for innovation. Alien limits on research. “The stars were not meant for man.”<br> The Great Filter<br> Maybe these aliens in the show are the great filter. Filling in some slots of the Drake Equation. Maybe we’re just terrible for the universe and they know it. :/<br> Butt Numbers<br> Directed evolution at a scale of tens to thousands of years.<br> Alien Appearance<br> Remember Us<br> Not too much to ask, really. We could have had a worse run.
