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Stories of Elders What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't eBook Veronica Kirin

This book begins by saying this is our last chance to interview people born before WWII. She goes on a trip around the US interviewing people from various backgrounds about how technology has changed life.

The book is divided by topic, such as money, work, and education, rather than by interview subject. This keeps the focus on the area of life that has changed rather than the personality of the interview subjects.

The book doesn’t have a thesis. It’s excerpts from interviews. Maybe that’s its point, just to document these conversations with people who grew up before computers. The book doesn’t try to turn it into a grand statement about the past or prediction for the future.

Being middle aged, born in ’75, I did not find the information surprising. It made me feel like most of the changes of the past 60 years have been in the last 20 years.

I always swore when I grew old I’d resist the urge to complain about the next generations, saying “kids today…” The interview subjects do a little of such grousing, but they try to balance with what has improved. I have unfortunately developed a “kids today…” attitude about kids being dependent on a helicopter parent and not going out and playing alone. This book touches on this toward the end. Reading that part, I felt like we could use an entire separate book on that.


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Stories of Elders What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't eBook Veronica Kirin Reviews

I really like the idea of this book--which is to tell the stories of more than 75 elders across the country. The author is be commended for taking on this ambitious project and for her clear and insightful writing. Clearly a lot of work went into compiling this book.

While there is a focus on technology in the stories, topics covered for the stories include family, food, money, politics, religion, rights, and more. The book shares how other people have lived and that is the interesting thing.

Great first book by a gifted author.
This was a fantastic read!! I love the snippets of Veronica's own journey with traveling around the country while interviewing the elders for their experiences. I also appreciate that the elders are listed in the back of the book--what a way to honor the greatest generation! I also loved her appreciation for each person interviewed.
I was especially impressed with how the book showed the negatives AND positives of technology, and was fascinated by the descriptions from the elders about how we often don't find pleasure in the simple things anymore. I've definitely found this to be true even in my own lifetime (I'm 27 now). The book really inspired me to remove myself from my phone/social media more often to find simple ways to be happy, as well as to ask my grandparents about their feelings with technology (the shifts, the positives and negatives, what they did growing up, etc).
Thank you Veronica for an incredible journey, great interviewees, and a wonderful book! I'm excited to pass it along to my family members and friends. It is SO valuable.
I must tip my hat to the author, Veronica Kirin, with her heartfelt story of those Elders known as the Greatest Generation. 
She captured the essence of living in the 1930s-1960s in amazing interviews from the people coming of age, before modern technology enveloped their lives that today we take for granted. The Stories of the Elders represents the best of humanist writing as she weaves their storied coming from diverse backgrounds and yet they shared similar life conditions and struggles. From a different age, she shares poignant observations of that generation coming in contact with changes leading to our modern conveniences and technology. The Greatest Generation experienced more personal changes than any other generation before them. 
Ms. Kirin collected tales of the past so that some of us might have the chance to hear from our Elders. The Elders never considered the future to be anything but what they experienced daily, bringing future generations the technology we are using today. She reaches into the past to provide future generations a glimpse of the Elders interactions with family, friendship, work, society, and wars, and brought forth a well-written book, connecting the Elders tales of universal existence.
While this book sheds light on the way life used to be, it is also a klaxon call for future generations to change the way technology is interfering with learning and someone at the present and in the future must find another approach. Technology is interfering with family values, friendship, and societal interactions. We are in a generational transition of knowledge and Stories of Elders is and should be the first book to bring the issue to the front. As a light reading book, it is deep with meaning.
I recommended this book to my daughters with new babies in the family so that they may open their eyes to how my parents were raised, how I was raised, how they were raised, and how their children are being raised. We need this book in the hands of today's parents.
I loved reading this book, looking forward to her next interactive project of people that that seem like family. 
This book is a fascinating study conducted by a trained anthropologist who became an entrepreneur. Kirin traveled across America to interview members of what she calls The Greatest Generation, Americans who were born before 1945. She wanted to discover what it was like to live before the advent of technology from the mouths of those who grew up living without it.
Kirin developed a list of fifteen interview questions which covered basic demographic information as well as the type of childhood, their occupations, and how technology has changed their lives and those who are growing up in a world dominated by technology. Her questions touched on poverty, economic issues, family, religion, safety, and community. Her conclusions discuss the advantages and disadvantages of growing up with or without technology. Kirin provides a list of participants in an index.
I believe that millennials will find this study interesting and enlightening. As a person who grew up between these two groups, I found the information fascinating.
This book begins by saying this is our last chance to interview people born before WWII. She goes on a trip around the US interviewing people from various backgrounds about how technology has changed life.

The book is divided by topic, such as money, work, and education, rather than by interview subject. This keeps the focus on the area of life that has changed rather than the personality of the interview subjects.

The book doesn’t have a thesis. It’s excerpts from interviews. Maybe that’s its point, just to document these conversations with people who grew up before computers. The book doesn’t try to turn it into a grand statement about the past or prediction for the future.

Being middle aged, born in ’75, I did not find the information surprising. It made me feel like most of the changes of the past 60 years have been in the last 20 years.

I always swore when I grew old I’d resist the urge to complain about the next generations, saying “kids today…” The interview subjects do a little of such grousing, but they try to balance with what has improved. I have unfortunately developed a “kids today…” attitude about kids being dependent on a helicopter parent and not going out and playing alone. This book touches on this toward the end. Reading that part, I felt like we could use an entire separate book on that.