Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
بوب ستاين: شعائر الدخول للمراحل المتقدمة من العمر
Bob Stein has long been in the vanguard: immersed in radical politics as a young man, he grew into one of the founding fathers of new media. He’s wondering what sorts of new rituals and traditions might emerge as society expands to include increasing numbers of people in their eighties and nineties. Full bio
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من الطبقة المتوسطة
في الرابع من يوليو،
on the Fourth of July,
under a tree at Christmas.
those traditions got to me,
an existential hole,
bigger than myself.
in my family in over a century,
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
ذو شعر أبيض حريري،
with flowing white hair,
for my middle name
of belonging and confidence
of my son turning 13
of a 13th birthday trip,
anywhere in the world
who loved turtles,
بمنتزه غراند كانيون الوطني،
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
مدى قوتها وشجاعتها.
that she was powerful and brave.
والعديد من أصدقائنا وأقاربنا
and lots of our friends and relatives
on 13th birthday trips,
for both the child and the parent.
before every meal.
بأن يمسكوا بأيدي بعضهم البعض،
to "pass the squeeze,"
من المتعلقات
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
القيام بأكثر من مجرد "تنظيف الموت".
than simple death cleaning.
للتخلص من المتعلقات الشخصية غير الهامة،
for clearing our your closets,
before you die,
عن أبنائك.
opening up box after box
any of that stuff.
at a specific picture
is that with Dad?"
لم تكن مهمة،
that were important;
هي التي أعطتها قيمة لدي.
that gave them meaning.
to tell the stories
not for a 13-year-old,
down the road?
that they found interesting.
بتلك الأغراض.
كانت أساساً لحوارات أكثر عمقًا،
for a much deeper discussion,
meaningful connections
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
من المساجين السياسين في أمريكا،
prisoners in American jails,
في الستينيات،
Movement of the '60s,
if he'd come of age then,
if he could have the T-shirt.
just about perfect.
established common ground,
في الأمور التي تعنيهم.
that really mattered to them.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
مقارب لل70 سنة.
to be living side by side.
and I hope strangers, too,
وحتى الغرباء إن أمكن،
لدخولي هذه المرحلة من حياتي.
to enter this next stage of my life.
what I was looking for:
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bob Stein - PublisherBob Stein has long been in the vanguard: immersed in radical politics as a young man, he grew into one of the founding fathers of new media. He’s wondering what sorts of new rituals and traditions might emerge as society expands to include increasing numbers of people in their eighties and nineties.
Why you should listen
Until his early 30's, Bob Stein was a full-time radical activist. In 1981, he spent a year researching and writing a paper for Encyclopedia Britannica -- "EB and the Intellectual Tools of the Future" -- and he has been involved in electronic publishing ever since. In 1984 he founded The Criterion Collection, a critically acclaimed series of definitive films, which included the first supplementary sections and director commentaries and introduced the letterbox format. He also founded The Voyager Company, which in 1989 published one of the first commercial CD-ROMs, "The CD Companion to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony." In 1992 Voyager published the first electronic books, including Douglas Adams's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. In 2004 The MacArthur Foundation provided a generous grant with which Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, a small think and do tank aimed at exploring and influencing the evolution of new forms of intellectual expression. In 2005, the Institute published the first "networked books," which an important milestone in the shift to social reading and writing as discourse moves from pages to screens. After waiting 25 years, since he saw the first public demo of VR, Stein is currently working on a platform to present music and art performance in a shared social space.
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