Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
ボブ・スタイン: 晩年への通過儀礼
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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中流家庭で育ちました
on the Fourth of July,
お菓子目当てに歩き回り
under a tree at Christmas.
プレゼントを置きました
those traditions got to me,
私が経験するようになる頃には
商業的なイベントとなっていて
an existential hole,
自分自身より大きな何かと
bigger than myself.
in my family in over a century,
100年以上もしていなかったので
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
1度ラビ(ユダヤ教の師)にお会いした時
with flowing white hair,
神様然とした方でしたが
for my middle name
私のミドルネームを
of belonging and confidence
帰属意識と自信は得られませんでした
of my son turning 13
13才になると思うと
of a 13th birthday trip,
アイディアを思いつき
anywhere in the world
意義を感じるなら世界中どこでも
who loved turtles,
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
谷底で2週間過ごした時
that she was powerful and brave.
パワーと勇気があると気づきました
and lots of our friends and relatives
友人 親戚の多くが
on 13th birthday trips,
13才の旅に連れていき
for both the child and the parent.
皆 気づきました
before every meal.
美しい静寂の時であり
to "pass the squeeze,"
「手を握って」と言いますが
安心させます
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
250箱以上の品を
私の本能が働きました
than simple death cleaning.
一歩先に行こうと思い始めました
for clearing our your closets,
死ぬ前に自分の押し入れや
before you die,
片づけることです
後でやらなくていいようにです
opening up box after box
次から次と箱を開けて
any of that stuff.
いぶかっている様が浮かびました
at a specific picture
is that with Dad?"
と訊くのを私は想像しました
納得がいきました
that were important;
that gave them meaning.
物語の方だと
to tell the stories
そういう物を使うことで
生み出せるでしょうか
not for a 13-year-old,
長く人生を歩んできた人のための
down the road?
that they found interesting.
尋ねてもらったのです
for a much deeper discussion,
さらに深い討論となり
meaningful connections
自分の人生との
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
私が80年代によく着ていた―
釈放を求めるTシャツについて尋ねました
prisoners in American jails,
数多くの政治犯の話から
Movement of the '60s,
また30余年後でなく
if he'd come of age then,
彼の人生はどう違っていただろうかという
if he could have the T-shirt.
just about perfect.
とても満たされた気持ちになりました
established common ground,
特に世代を超えた人びとが
本当に重要な事を話していました
that really mattered to them.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
生まれてきました
to be living side by side.
and I hope strangers, too,
それを分かち合うことは
to enter this next stage of my life.
完ぺきな手段に思えます
what I was looking for:
まさに私が求めていたことです
死にまつわるものというより
ドアを開けて
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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