Since its launch on the market at the beginning of last July, the Japanese application Pokémon Go has revolutionized the world, causing its thousands of users to replace sedentary lifestyle with urban hiking and, perhaps, clouding the judgment of those too obsessed with hunting Pokémon on the road to work. A fever that, on the other hand, opens the doors to many other and perhaps interesting social experiments such as the possibility of going out to hunt books. Belgium has already started.
Pikachu also reads
Exhaustive afternoons in search of pokémons through the streets of the city, trips paid to capture the last Japanese bug, people who never walked so long until they downloaded the latest cry in games for smartphones. After going on the market in July, Nintendo's Pokémon Go app has crashed platforms around the world through the attractiveness of going out and hunting pokémons thanks to the GPS and the camera, training them in favorable gyms and turning the pokeparadas into new meeting points for geeks urban.
A fashion that, at the same time, has aroused interest among teachers and academics to discover what would happen if instead of Pokémon, the items to hunt through the streets were books. The first attempt was made in Belgium, where one day lelementary teacher Aveline Gregoire could not find enough space at home to store her books. The recent launch of Pokémon Go inspired her to launch a similar initiative, that of hunting down books through a Facebook group called Chasseurs des livres (Book hunters), in which the moderator herself gives the guidelines to search for certain hidden books through various clues.
The initiative in question consists of abandoning a book in nature and providing a photo and its location using various clues, so that a person from the same region can find it, read it and provide the data in the group created. Something like a bookcrossing + yincana that already has more than 51 followers in the original group to date, although the phenomenon is expanding to other regions of Belgium and is already reaching France.
An initiative that, hopefully, replaces the habits of poke addicts and, incidentally, serves to further promote the dissemination of culture throughout the world, including Spain, a country where it would not be bad to meet the record for the highest concentration of lovers of literature in the Plaza del Sol.
Although something tells us that this is not going to be that easy.
What do you think of this news?
"... people who never walked so much"?
Yes Caesar, Pokémon Go has made people who never used to walk or led a more sedentary life to walk more because of the application.
Did they walk or did they walk?
True, it is walked.
Small involuntary failures.
Thank you!