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Something changed when we got our screens. We felt it in our attention, our relationships, even in our sense of time. But we couldn't name it, because we were already inside it.

The people who could name it were the ones who lived most of their lives before it. And they were disappearing.

In 2015, anthropologist Veronica Zora Kirin drove 12,000 miles across more than 40 states to find them: 100 members of the Greatest Generation, the last Americans to grow up before the digital revolution. She sat with them in their kitchens and living rooms. She asked them to remember. And what they told her reframes everything we think we know about technology, progress, and what we've given up.

Stories of Elders is not a book of nostalgia. It is a book about perspective, the kind that only comes from having lived through the most transformative century in human history and come out the other side with something to say about it.

Spanning more than 8,000 years of lived experience including World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and the rise of the internet, this is oral history as cultural reckoning. For anyone asking what the digital revolution has actually cost us — and what wisdom we still have time to recover — this book has the answers.

Perfect for: readers of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and Factfulness; tech professionals questioning the cost of constant connectivity; educators and book clubs exploring intergenerational wisdom; anyone who has ever wanted to ask their grandparents what they know that we've forgotten.

About the author: Veronica Zora Kirin is an anthropologist, Forbes Next 1000 honoree, and 40 Under 40 Business Leader who studies paradigm shifts in culture and technology. She has presented this research on two TEDx stages and her work has been featured in Forbes. Stories of Elders is her debut book.

Anthropologist turned serial entrepreneur Veronica Kirin has a passion for telling stories and connecting with the past. Her desire to study social changes through people drove her to write about technology and its impact on culture through the eyes of the Greatest Generation. Kirin was named by Forbes as a notable graduate of Grand Valley State University, a 40 Under 40 Business Leader, has been recognized as the founder of a Top Women Owned Business, and owns the first business in Grand Rapids, Michigan to be certified by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. She offers entrepreneurial coaching to LGBTQ business owners through her signature Self Care Through Scaling(TM) program so they work less, grow faster, and earn more. Learn more at veronicakirin.com and storiesofelders.com