Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
Bob Stein: Hayatın ileri safhaları hakkında manevi bir konuşma
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,
havai fişeklerin izlenmesi,
''şaka mı şeker mi?'' diye sorulması
under a tree at Christmas.
hediyelerin konulup sunulmasıdır.
those traditions got to me,
an existential hole,
bağlantı kurmak için
bigger than myself.
doldururken buldum.
in my family in over a century,
bar mitzhvah yapılmıyordu.
gerektiğini düşündüm
when my one encounter with the rabbi,
with flowing white hair,
for my middle name
of belonging and confidence
of my son turning 13
törenler olmadan
düşüncesine katlanamadım.
of a 13th birthday trip,
fikriyle geldim
anywhere in the world
götürmeyi önerdim.
who loved turtles,
genç bir doğa bilimci olarak
at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
cesaretli ve güçlü olduğunu öğrendiği
that she was powerful and brave.
2 hafta vakit geçirdik.
and lots of our friends and relatives
Ashton ve arkadaşlarımızın,
on 13th birthday trips,
13. doğum günü gezisine götürürler
for both the child and the parent.
ebeveynler için iyileştirici buluyor.
before every meal.
to "pass the squeeze,"
el ele tutuşmalarını söylerken
olmadığının da garantisini veriyor.
ömür boyu topladığım
with the more than 250 boxes of stuff
than simple death cleaning.
gidebilir miyim diye merak etmeye başladım
for clearing our your closets,
bodrum ve tavan arasında bulunan
before you die,
bir İsveç terimidir,
yapmak zorunda kalmaz.
opening up box after box
any of that stuff.
merak ettiklerini hayal ettim.
at a specific picture
is that with Dad?"
sorduğunu hayal ettim.
that were important;
that gave them meaning.
hikâyelerdi.
to tell the stories
nesneleri kullanmak,
not for a 13-year-old,
törenleri için değil
down the road?
that they found interesting.
soru sormaya davet ettim.
for a much deeper discussion,
meaningful connections
bağlantılar yaptığı
bir fırlatma rampası hâline geldi.
about a Leonard Peltier T-shirt
prisoners in American jails,
çok sayıda siyasi tutukludan,
Movement of the '60s,
if he'd come of age then,
hayatının nasıl farklı olabileceğine
if he could have the T-shirt.
alabilir miyim diye sordu.
just about perfect.
sadece mükemmel hissettirirdi.
established common ground,
oluşturduğundan,
gerçekten önemli olan
that really mattered to them.
bir alan açtığımı fark ettim.
with a renewed sense of purpose --
içerisinde görmeye başladım --
70'li yaşlarında son bulmuştu.
to be living side by side.
and I hope strangers, too,
yabancılarla da paylaşmak
to enter this next stage of my life.
mükemmel bir yol gibi görünüyor.
what I was looking for:
bir ritüel olduğu ortaya çıktı.
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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