Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
Боб Стайн: Обряд перехода в заключительный этап жизни
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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представителем среднего класса
on the Fourth of July,
на День независимости,
under a tree at Christmas.
под ёлкой на Рождество.
those traditions got to me,
когда эти традиции дошли до меня,
an existential hole,
эту экзистенциальную дыру,
bigger than myself.
чем я сам.
in my family in over a century,
больше столетия,
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
когда я встретился с раввином,
with flowing white hair,
и распущенными белыми волосами,
for my middle name
of belonging and confidence
причастности или уверенности,
of my son turning 13
что моему сыну исполняется 13
of a 13th birthday trip,
на 13-й день рождения,
anywhere in the world
в любую точку мира,
who loved turtles,
который любил черепах,
на Галапагосских островах.
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
в нижней части Большого каньона,
that she was powerful and brave.
что она сильная и смелая.
and lots of our friends and relatives
и многие наши друзья и родственники
on 13th birthday trips,
на 13-й день рождения своих детей,
for both the child and the parent.
как для ребёнка, так и для родителя.
before every meal.
перед каждым приёмом пищи.
to "pass the squeeze,"
что дело не в религии.
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
с 250 коробками хлама,
проявился вновь.
than simple death cleaning.
что-то большее,
for clearing our your closets,
термин для очистки ваших шкафов,
before you die,
это делать самим.
opening up box after box
открывающих коробку за коробкой
any of that stuff.
зачем я хранил каждую из этих вещей.
at a specific picture
как они смотрят на мою фотографию
is that with Dad?"
that were important;
that gave them meaning.
которые сопровождали эти вещи.
to tell the stories
not for a 13-year-old,
down the road?
из ящиков,
that they found interesting.
что их интересует.
for a much deeper discussion,
более глубокого обсуждения,
meaningful connections
обрели значимые связи
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
о футболке Леонарда Пельтье,
до сих пор актуальна.
prisoners in American jails,
политзаключенных в американских тюрьмах,
Movement of the '60s,
if he'd come of age then,
достигни он совершеннолетия тогда,
if he could have the T-shirt.
может ли он взять футболку.
just about perfect.
я чувствовал себя в полном порядке.
established common ground,
создали точку соприкосновения,
that really mattered to them.
действительно были важны для них.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
через призму новой цели —
на их восьмом десятке.
to be living side by side.
жить бок о бок.
and I hope strangers, too,
я надеюсь, с незнакомцами тоже,
to enter this next stage of my life.
войти в следующий этап моей жизни.
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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