Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
Bob Stein: Um ritual de passagem para a vida tardia
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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sem religião e de classe média
no Dia da Independência.
on the Fourth of July,
under a tree at Christmas.
those traditions got to me,
empreendimentos comerciais
com um sentimento de incompletude.
an existential hole,
bigger than myself.
o Bar Mitzvah em minha família,
in my family in over a century,
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
ao me encontrar com o rabino,
with flowing white hair,
e seus cabelos brancos,
for my middle name
of belonging and confidence
e confiança que estava procurando.
que meu filho completasse 13 anos
of my son turning 13
of a 13th birthday trip,
para comemorar seus 13 anos
anywhere in the world
a qualquer lugar no mundo
who loved turtles,
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
no fundo do Grand Canyon,
that she was powerful and brave.
que era poderosa e corajosa.
and lots of our friends and relatives
assim como vários amigos e parentes,
em seus aniversários de 13 anos,
on 13th birthday trips,
for both the child and the parent.
se sentiram transformados.
before every meal.
de silêncio compartilhado
to "pass the squeeze,"
que não se trata de religião.
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
com as mais de 250 caixas de coisas
than simple death cleaning.
ir além da simples limpeza fatal.
for clearing our your closets,
que significa limpar seu armário,
before you die,
não fiquem com essa tarefa.
opening up box after box
abrindo caixa após caixa
any of that stuff.
tinha guardado aquelas coisas.
at a specific picture
para uma foto específica minha
is that with Dad?"
that were important;
nas coisas que guardei,
that gave them meaning.
e davam significado a elas.
to tell the stories
poderia ser a semente de um novo ritual?
não para um jovem de 13 anos,
not for a 13-year-old,
down the road?
that they found interesting.
que achassem interessante.
for a much deeper discussion,
para uma conversa mais profunda,
conexões significativas com a vida deles.
meaningful connections
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
sobre uma camiseta de Leonard Peltier
prisoners in American jails,
políticos nas prisões americanas,
do Movimento de Libertação Negra
Movement of the '60s,
se tivesse atingido a maioridade na época
if he'd come of age then,
if he could have the T-shirt.
ficar com a camiseta.
just about perfect.
established common ground,
se tornavam propriedade coletiva,
that really mattered to them.
que tinham grande significado para elas.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
com um propósito renovado,
pode contribuir para o futuro.
to be living side by side.
vivendo lado a lado.
and I hope strangers, too,
e espero que com estranhos também,
to enter this next stage of my life.
nessa nova fase de minha vida.
what I was looking for:
o que estava procurando:
para tudo que vier.
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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