Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
باب استاین: مناسک گذار به سالهای پیری
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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on the Fourth of July,
under a tree at Christmas.
those traditions got to me,
an existential hole,
پر کردن حفره وجودی دیدم،
bigger than myself.
in my family in over a century,
هیچ برمیتسوایی در خانواده نداشتیم،
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
که تنها ملاقات من با خاخام،
with flowing white hair,
با موهای سفید آویخته داشت،
for my middle name
of belonging and confidence
که جستجو میکردم را
of my son turning 13
of a 13th birthday trip,
anywhere in the world
who loved turtles,
که عاشق لاکپشتهاست،
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
that she was powerful and brave.
فهمید قدرتمند و شجاع است.
and lots of our friends and relatives
و بسیاری از دوستان و آشنایان ما
on 13th birthday trips,
به مسافرت تولد ۱۳ سالگی بردهاند،
for both the child and the parent.
و بچهها دگرگون کننده یافتهاند.
before every meal.
دستهای هم را میگیریم.
to "pass the squeeze,"
که این مذهبی نیست.
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
than simple death cleaning.
از یک خانهتکانی مرگ ساده فراتر بروم.
for clearing our your closets,
به معنی تمیز کردن کمدها،
before you die,
بعداً این کار را بکنند.
opening up box after box
جعبهها را یکی پس از دیگری باز میکنند
any of that stuff.
چرا من این چیزها را جمع کردهام.
at a specific picture
که دارند به یک عکس خاص
is that with Dad?"
that were important;
نبود که مهم بودند؛
that gave them meaning.
که به آنها معنا میداد.
to tell the stories
برای داستان گفتن
not for a 13-year-old,
down the road?
که خیلی بیشتر در راه بوده است؟
that they found interesting.
از من هرچه خواستند بپرسند.
for a much deeper discussion,
سکوی پرتاب بحث بسیار عمیقتری شد،
meaningful connections
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
لئونارد پلتیر از من پرسید
prisoners in American jails,
در زندانهای آمریکا،
درباره میراث جنبش آزادی سیاهان
Movement of the '60s,
if he'd come of age then,
اگر در آن زمان به سن و سالی رسیده بود،
if he could have the T-shirt.
که میتواند تی-شرت را بردارد.
just about perfect.
خیلی عالی به نظر میرسید.
established common ground,
برای مردم باز میکنم
that really mattered to them.
واقعاً مهم است صحبت کنند.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
با حسی تازهای از هدف یافتم --
که باید نقش خود را بازی کند
در ۷۰ و چند سالگی تمام میشد.
to be living side by side.
and I hope strangers, too,
خانواده، و امیدوارم غریبهها،
to enter this next stage of my life.
به این مرحله بعدی زندگی به نظر میرسد.
what I was looking for:
که دنبالش میگشتم:
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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