Culture

In France, we have a song about Charlemagne who invented school, but he didn’t. I don’t know what the lore is in other countries, so I started searching for the truth that is not taught in school:

Who created School?

The idea of people coming together to learn has always existed for all we know. In ancient Greece, they had an Academy—a word coming from the Athenian hero, Akademos—where Plato taught philosophy, for example.

Maybe I should change the way I titled my articles, because some readers may think the answer is in it. Like with the Laws of Robotics, there’s a history behind the Bechdel Test. But first, if you don’t know what we are talking about today:

What is the Bechdel Test?

According to Merriam-Webster, the Bechdel Test is a set of criteria used as a test to evaluate a work of fiction (such as a film) on the basis of its inclusion and representation of female characters:

1. The movie has to have at least two women in it,
2. who talk to each other,
3. about something other than a man.

The other day, my nephew complained about the necessity to go to school, and why did we need money? Me too I hated school and I also hated that I needed money to live. I understand where he comes from. But, where does the money come from?

Who created money?

With a subject like that, you know that the answer won’t be a single person. It’s too old. Money was always here, in a way. Before there was money, people exchanged goods. Nothing more was needed until communities started to grow.

With new sciences come new kinds of science-fiction stories. Because with new possibilities come new ideas about the present and the future, and new types of stories. In the second half of the 20th century, the idea of High Tech led to the emergence of cyberpunk literature.

The Origin of the Word Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction subgenre. The name was coined by the American writer Bruce Bethke who used it as the title for a short story he wrote in 1980 (published in November 1983 in Amazing Stories magazine). In it, the character uses his talent with computers to cause trouble. He was a “hacker,” even if the term was not used in the story.