Our Reasons

The reasons for this fundraising.

It is wonderful that precisely from Italy, the cradle of literature, the first Cultural Network in Virtual Reality was born.

We are passionate about our project and our ideas are limitless. There are so many things we would like to achieve thanks to your help.

We consider ourselves pioneers in the cultural virtual reality space. We are proud of the strides we have already made, using personal funding, friends and acquaintances. Our confidence in this project has allowed us to get this far. Now we are ready to move forward, looking for more funding to take our project worldwide. Now is the opportunity for you to be a part of this revolutionary marriage of culture and technology. Now is the time for us to take control over Artificial Intelligence, using it to further our cultural passions.

Below are just some of the projects we have conceived over the years and now intend to realize.

Creating a Different E-Commerce Model

An E-Commerce made by humans for humans.

With the help of Librai in Corso (Booksellers in Training), a small association that has followed us in the bookselling training path, we have studied a system through which to make neighborhood bookstores the real protagonists of the Bookelot Virtual Bookstore as soon as possible.

We Love Artificial Intelligence but...

Behind the writing of each book there are dreams, frustrations, individual and collective life experiences. Only a human being can fully appreciate these passions, feelings, fears, prejudices, meanness, acts of courage. With L.Tolstoy, we are among those who seek "sincerity in art". We love Artificial Intelligence: it allows us to do things that seemed impossible before. But in its essence, in that artificiality that it carries in its name, by nature it cannot be sincere. Can it create beautiful things? Absolutely yes. Can it replace the human condition in the realm of creation and transmission of culture? We would be wrong if we assigned it this role, intrinsically not its own. Just as we don’t leave the creative writing process in the hands of AI, we should not leave the reader’s experience in the hands of AI.

Bookelot, e-commerce and social network in Virtual Reality

Adapting the world wide web to break territorial boundaries and create new worlds. We crave a broader, borderless world, a world as an extension of the real, not an artificial Paradise of escape.
The use of AI has very low costs, compared to the costs related to humans who dedicate their life, their skills and their passion to the work of booksellers. But only a human bookseller can have the possibility to read my soul, see in me what I do not yet see, show me a possible path towards a future still to be built.

Breaking Linguistic Barriers

We love languages as much as dialects, but we long for a world where we can easily communicate with people of every ethnicity and country.

We love our language and we are proud to be Italians, we are proud to belong to a people who gave the world the Renaissance, musical notes, perspective. And it is with our Dante that we say "I have the world as my homeland, like fish have the sea"..

We are and will always be grateful to all the peoples of this small planet. We never forget that we use an alphabet born in Greece to write on paper, our beloved paper, conceived in China. And if you are reading these lines on a computer, never forget that you can do so thanks to the ingenuity of Americans and Japanese, and you owe the Iranians for the enormous contribution they have made to the development of ventilation and air conditioning systems, including the ventilation necessary to keep your computer from overheating.

Worldwide, Arabic numbers are used, and the French metric system and English calculation are widespread. From the Egyptians comes the calendar which, after various transformations, is now our calendar, and we owe so much to the courage of Spanish and Portuguese navigators.

We have learned to understand ourselves as individuals thanks to psychology, who’s founding father was an Austrian Jew. Splendid poetic and musical works have been given to us by the Palestinians And it is with the Jewish Einstein that we recognize ourselves as part of a single race: the human race.

We will never cease to thank both Russians and Ukrainians for giving birth to great writers, just as we owe the Scandinavians the birth of great sagas. We will always bow gratefully before the Germans, Greeks, Chinese, and Indians for the enormous contributions they have made to philosophy.

The contributions of the Turks in the field of architecture are enormous, as are the great battles for civilization and the defense of human rights carried out by the oppressed Kurds. We do not want and cannot forget the precious contribution of Africans, inhabitants of what was the cradle where homo sapiens were born and who, with their rich history, culture, and knowledge, have enriched the fabric of human civilization, giving us priceless works of art, scientific knowledge, and a deep wisdom that continues to be a source of inspiration and change for humans around the globe.

We are aware that the contributions of each culture are far greater and that all knowledge is the result of multiple and interconnected contributions. We could spend hours we regret not having here the space to dedicate at least a line to every culture from the distant Hittites to the friendly Irish, passing through the Native Americans, the Kyrgyz, the Koreans, and the Vietnamese.

With them, with all of them (Hittites excluded), we would like to be able to speak in our language and be heard in theirs, and vice versa. The existing technology makes this goal anything but utopian.

Making Reading More and More Inclusive

Culture, like technology, cannot be an end, it cannot be closed in an ivory tower made of intellectuals.

To be an effective tool for improving the world and life, culture must be widespread and pervasive, appreciated and accessible to all.

There are many forms of inclusivity and different tools to achieve it.

"Who has bread has no teeth"

The most serious form of exclusion is perhaps self-exclusion, being full of books and not reading them. It is useless to whine about "young people not reading". If they don't, it's our fault, we adults, who do not give them good reasons to do so and who are not close enough to their world to understand it, finding ourselves the tools to encourage them to read. We believe that the immersive book we have designed and developed can give its small contribution to rekindle young people's passion for reading. For it to play this role, the v-book must enter schools. We have structured a small zero-cost educational proposal that we are now presenting to some educational institutions. We would like to do more: contacting more schools and implementing immersive learning experiences.

"Who has teeth has no bread"

We want to make reading more economically accessible. According to Italian law, a text becomes the heritage of humanity seventy years after the death of those who legitimately hold the copyright (the author obviously, but also any translators and illustrators). But a heritage is not such if it is not accessible to all, and it is only through the work of digitizing texts that this ideal can become reality. Liber Liber is a Volunteer Organization that since 1993 has been digitizing and freely publishing books whose copyrights have expired or that have been donated to humanity by their own authors. The group of friends who gave birth to Bookelot has always appreciated the work done by Liber Liber, and we have therefore chosen to give them adequate space in our bookstore. But we would like to do more, in addition to inviting you to visit their site and suggesting you make even a small donation to them directly, we would like to put ourselves in a position to be able to hire personnel to digitize works to donate to Liber Liber and, through it, to the world."

"Assistance for those with dyslexia cannot be left to personal sensitivity and goodwill"

o be an effective tool for improving the world and life, culture must be widespread and pervasive, it must be appreciated and accessible to all. Reading-related disorders also lead to excluding part of the population from the pleasure of reading. Various techniques can be adopted to minimize the discomforts related to dyslexia and other learning disorders: we intend to implement as many as possible .

"As any radio listener knows, it's amazing how many things you can see with your ears"

Digital reading is a great aid for the visually impaired, aforisticamente.com, who can enlarge the text to their liking. But that is not enough for those who have completely lost their sight. The more audiobooks we can produce, the greater the number we can donate to associations for the blind.

There are many things to do...
We have many ideas and the desire to do!

Another world is possible, let's build it together!

Community

Siamo presenti anche sui Social Network