Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
Bob Stein: Un ritual pentru ultima perioadă a vieții
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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din clasa de mijloc
on the Fourth of July,
la artificii de 4 iulie,
under a tree at Christmas.
those traditions got to me,
aceste obiceiuri
deveniseră fără valoare,
an existential hole,
bigger than myself.
mai mare decât mine.
in my family in over a century,
un bar mitzvah de peste o sută de ani
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
întâlnire cu un rabin,
with flowing white hair,
cu un păr lung și alb,
for my middle name
of belonging and confidence
nici certitudinea
of my son turning 13
că fiul meu va împlini 13 ani
care să marcheze acest lucru.
of a 13th birthday trip,
unei călătorii la vârsta de 13 ani
anywhere in the world
să mergem în orice loc din lume
who loved turtles,
care iubea broaștele țestoase
a împlinit 13 ani,
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
la poalele Marelui Canion,
that she was powerful and brave.
că e puternică și curajoasă.
and lots of our friends and relatives
și mulți prieteni și rude
on 13th birthday trips,
în călătoria de la 13 ani,
for both the child and the parent.
atât pentru copil, cât și pentru părinte.
before every meal.
înainte de fiecare masă.
de tăcere împărtășită,
în momentul prezent.
to "pass the squeeze,"
să dea mai departe strângerea de mână,
religios în asta.
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
cu cele peste 250 de cutii pline
impulsul meu de a crea ritualuri.
than simple death cleaning.
mai mult decât o simplă curățenie.
for clearing our your closets,
pentru eliberarea dulapurilor,
before you die,
înainte de moarte,
să o facă mai târziu.
opening up box after box
deschizând cutie după cutie
any of that stuff.
toate lucrurile acelea.
at a specific picture
uitându-se la o fotografie
is that with Dad?"
„Cine oare e acea persoană?"
that were important;
erau importante;
that gave them meaning.
și le dădeau un înțeles.
to tell the stories
să spună povești,
not for a 13-year-old,
nu pentru un copil de 13 ani,
down the road?
mult mai înaintat în vârstă?
that they found interesting.
despre orice găsesc interesant.
for a much deeper discussion,
pentru o discuție mai profundă,
meaningful connections
făceau conexiuni relevante
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
despre un tricou cu Leonard Peltier
este încă de actualitate și astăzi.
prisoners in American jails,
aflați în închisorile americane,
Movement of the '60s,
a persoanelor de culoare din anii '60
if he'd come of age then,
dacă ar fi crescut în acea perioadă,
if he could have the T-shirt.
dacă poate păstra tricoul.
just about perfect.
cea mai bună idee.
established common ground,
au stabilit un numitor comun,
că ofeream posibilitatea
that really mattered to them.
care chiar conta pentru ei.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
cu un sens reînnoit în menirea mea --
pe la 70 de ani.
în istoria umanității,
to be living side by side.
care trăiesc în același timp.
and I hope strangers, too,
și poate și cu străinii
to enter this next stage of my life.
de a intra într-o nouă etapă a vieții.
what I was looking for:
despre a muri
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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