Video Abstract
In the desirable scenario in which artificial intelligences will increase human productivity, and of a redistribution of wealth, a society in which it will be possible to work less is conceivable. If this hypothesis is realized we will see a major growth in the leisure economy, and the tourism sector would be the first to benefit.
With greater availability of free time, and sufficient economic resources, more and more people will take to the road. With an impact on our intelligence that is to be analyzed. The first great travelers brought enormous wealth and knowledge back to their countries. From America more than gold and silver came corn, potatoes, tomatoes, cocoa, which through widespread creativity shaped the typical dishes still most used today, increasing the resilience of European peoples. Tourism originated historically with the Grand Tour, a cultural and educational trip that was particularly popular among young European aristocrats, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was a trip that involved visiting places of artistic and cultural interest, mainly in Italy, considered an essential experience for a young person’s intellectual formation and culture.
Today, if travel is not reduced to a standardized form of entertainment, but an authentic experience of place, it can become a form of intellectual enrichment.
Spreads direct, lived knowledge, critical thinking, awareness of others and self.
A person who has truly traveled has a valuable form of exploratory intelligence, which is based on a bodily, multisensory experience deeply imprinted in the mind, what Cicero describes in his mnemotechnical theory based on “loci” and “agentes imagines”: in our memory we store ideas by organizing them by places and images, which can be either real or fantastic memories.
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool for enhancing exploratory intelligence.
First, by providing powerful personal real-time translation tools on smartphones or in smart glasses that enable the traveler to read foreign languages, transliterate alphabets, and converse directly with locals. But also by providing valuable geolocated information.
Spacetelling is a techno-methodology designed for the enhancement of exploratory intellectual experience. When faced with the archaeological remains of an ancient city, not all travelers are able to decode the ruins. Spacetelling uses artificial intelligence to regenerate the past and hook it into the present, going on to complete a cognitive mosaic lacking some key pieces.
With Spacetelling, the ruins regain their original appearance, the ancient inhabitants appear, and it is possible to converse with them. Of course, following scientific data provided by archaeologists and anthropologists.
As we move through a city, we will be able to compare its current appearance with earlier ones, discovering the significance of surviving presences from the past that have only partially come down to us.
Spacetelling articulates the narrative in a geo-positioned immersive rhetoric that organizes content from the location, speed, orientation, and direction of the traveler’s movement. In a narrative logic that is generated from real places and objects.
In a square we can discover symbols, styles, inscriptions of the past, in front of a dish we can identify typical ingredients, and virtually travel to where they were produced.
Or in a museum we can dialogue with an artifact and see it placed back in its original context, the historical setting and archaeological excavation from which it was removed.
Tourism and cultural heritage become multi-level cognitive experiences, enabling new forms of exploratory intelligence.
Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, particularly when enabled by augmented reality devices, unthinkable perceptual experiences are being enabled, requiring new forms of immersive storytelling of places, of Spacetelling.
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