ATTENTION EVERYBODY! OUR FIRST EVER CHALLENGE HAS COMMENCED!
Well hello! We've been given our first challenge by Mr. Charles (yay for progress in our previously-boring-yet-exciting-post-spm-slash-IGSCE-lives!).
Yes. Our instructions have been.. Sketch-noted above by Mr. Charles. Apparently we are to create a total new metaphorical world based on books: Foundation or I-Robot, either one, both by Isaac Asimov. Hmm. Who exactly is this Isaac Asimov? What are the messages that he is trying to convey through these two books which he had successfully (and quite mind blowing, I must say) written?
Well safe to say, we had taken consideration to which book to choose (honestly we bluntly picked just one of it), ending up with the preference to Foundation than to I-Robot. Since we had chosen Foundation, let's take a quick look at what it's mainly about! (Do be prepared to read very random things as the way I try to understand and elaborate might be totally out of your railway of understanding things).
Foundation tells the story of a group of scientists who seek to preserve knowledge as the civilizations around them begin to regress -
Now, obviously as any smart tech-friendly student would do, we mainly referred to Wikipedia as a skeletal reference to the book's whole main story. With luck on our side though, Aina managed to grab hold of the book itself (Thanks to Aina's dad for keeping it safe throughout his years of living after actually purchasing it!).
Basically it tells the story of a super-duper smart mathematician -who we shall refer to (in this particular post) as Honky Ponkey, obviously, since it sounds fancier and more catchy than the real name itself (Hari Seldon, to be exact, meh, too sciencey). Apparently he came up with a theory that the Galactic Empire he was happily living in, will come to collapse in 500 years and being the genius that he was, he had expressed his prediction to the empire's Committee of Public Safety about it. I mean come on, imagine being part of well-developed empire, hearing such an impossible thing occurance?
Wait, all that aside, how was he able to predict this unbelievable news? Yes, as a mathematician and psychologist, he developed Psychohistory, which is the study that connects the possibilities in a big society to maths: hence, being able to predict the future.
Back to the main story. Honky Ponkey claimed that with the creation of the compendium of human knowledge: the Encyclopedia Galactica (or in this case of explaination, we shall fancily refer to it as Cycopododo since it sounds cuter and catchier), the time length of the fall would be prolonged to a millenium instead. Wowzors can you imagine that!
As said in Wikipedia as well, with the committee being skeptical about it, they had exiled him to a remote world called Terminus (along with his supporters of course) in order for smarty pants Honky Ponkey and the whole team itself to embark on his journey to complete the Cycopododo.
Long story short, with the combination of all five chapters, we had come up with a few main points which we had later discussed about in our group discussion session.
Initially, this was what we had interpreted out of the book. To twist this post around though, our imagination had led us to a totally new level and well, perhaps, exceeding the level of total over-exaggeration. We had discussed our points briefly with Mr. Charles and had gotten a clear (of course not, it was rather foggy for my brain to still see at that point of time) view of what we were to actually see out of the novel.
Hmm.. It took us quite a while to actually understand it fully, but hey whaddya know, we actually came up with a big clear picture of what he might be trying to tell us! I will, leave that matter to be told in the next post though. It could be from moii, or it might be coming from any of us from other colored plates. For the meantime though, let's leave you thinking of what it could be :3
Signing off,
Zuliana
(Hm.. I'm probably a fully eaten sushi today since my brain is totally busted out from all the research and development!)
