If I told you that I was an international superproducer / director of director’s who rejects PhD candidates on the regular, would it make a bit of difference to the topic at hand?

The word edutainment has been used approximately four times prior to AD 1990. We mock it so not because of its so-called utility value (although we’re sure Egyptian graffiti was the bomb), but rather because it’s a ridiculous buzzword worthy of scorn and ridicule, much like “emergence,” “synergy,” et ceteron. Ditto convergence. Things have always “emerged together” in some sort or another, but marketing assholes have only recently taken upon the word. The point is, historical parallels bear no precedent for 5th Avenue neologisms.

However, we wish you the best of luck in your blogging ad-venture (get it, people have tried to sell products in fun and exciting ways since the dawn of time!), and we hope you come back soon whenever you’re in need of a diverting divergence.

Give the blog a chance. It is a mix of research interviews which will continue for the next 5 -10 years to watch the evolution along with headlines and video about the subject and the religious, military, government, business and high education connection that began with edutainment way before Robert Heyman and KRS 1 who deserve credit for coining and popularizing the terms. Edutainment began with wall paintings and graffiti in Egypt and Babylon, continued through Greece, Alexandria and Rome and was picked up by the Islamic Empire, the Roman Catholic Church and the Ottoman Turks until the University of Paris, Oxford, Cambridge and the Colonial Universities began the modern movement. Remember, edutainment has always been used as an attention getter and keeper in the form of storytelling, theatre, films and games. Convergence emerged from WWII with the Manhattan Project, the Space Race and the Cold War which produced military research and civilian projects that we all use today that has blurred the line between phones, computers, cameras, recording devices, gaming platforms and televisions.