Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
Bob Stein: Přechodový rituál pro zralý věk
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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bílé, světské střední třídy
koukal na ohňostroje,
on the Fourth of July,
dárky pod stromeček.
under a tree at Christmas.
nad těmi tradicemi přemýšlet,
those traditions got to me,
an existential hole,
tuto existenční mezeru,
bigger than myself.
už víc než 100 let,
in my family in over a century,
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
když moje jediné setkání s rabínem,
se splývavými bílými vlasy,
with flowing white hair,
na moje prostřední jméno,
for my middle name
of belonging and confidence
of my son turning 13
výlet ke 13. narozeninám,
of a 13th birthday trip,
anywhere in the world
kam ho jeho srdce táhne.
se zálibou v želvách
who loved turtles,
na dně Grand Canyonu,
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
that she was powerful and brave.
and lots of our friends and relatives
on 13th birthday trips,
for both the child and the parent.
neučil se před jídlem modlit,
držíme za ruce.
before every meal.
v jednom okamžiku.
aby "poslali elektrický signál",
to "pass the squeeze,"
není nic náboženského.
moje rodina požádala,
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
mohl jít jinak
than simple death cleaning.
for clearing our your closets,
before you die,
opening up box after box
všechny ty věci schovával.
any of that stuff.
na jednu konkrétní fotku
at a specific picture
is that with Dad?"
"Proboha, a tahle vedle táty je kdo?"
které jsem schraňoval.
that were important;
that gave them meaning.
o těchto předmětech
to tell the stories
not for a 13-year-old,
na cestě životem o kus dál?
down the road?
co je zaujme.
that they found interesting.
for a much deeper discussion,
přicházeli na zajímavé souvislosti
meaningful connections
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
na tričko s Leonardem Peltierem,
v amerických věznicích
prisoners in American jails,
Movement of the '60s,
za občanská práva v 60. letech
kdyby dospíval tehdy,
if he'd come of age then,
jestli by si mohl to tričko vzít.
if he could have the T-shirt.
byl prostě dokonalý.
just about perfect.
nacházeli společná témata,
established common ground,
that really mattered to them.
které jsou pro ně opravdu důležité.
znovu objevuji svůj účel:
with a renewed sense of purpose --
zaklepat bačkorama,
po sedmdesátce.
žijí čtyři generace.
to be living side by side.
20 nebo 30 let života.
and I hope strangers, too,
a doufám, že i s cizími lidmi,
jak vstoupit do této nové životní etapy.
to enter this next stage of my life.
co jsem hledal:
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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