[HN Gopher] 1965 Interview with 107 year old farmer
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       1965 Interview with 107 year old farmer
        
       Author : lifeisstillgood
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-09-04 21:08 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | lifeisstillgood wrote:
       | He was asked what was the biggest change he had seen in his
       | lifetime - he said ... "machinery".
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       | Not Tractors or cars or airplanes but basically, an industrial
       | revolution.
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       | Born in the first half of the 19th Century. Incredible
        
         | thechao wrote:
         | I asked my great grandmother (who was born in 1891) what she
         | thought the most amazing thing she'd seen. (This was about
         | 1988.) Answer? Cheap large print books.
        
           | lifeisstillgood wrote:
           | Yeah - those reprints of novels for libraries. It's basically
           | a Show Reader View for wood pulp. As my eyes deteriorate I
           | can see where she is coming from :-)
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           | Edit: also kudos to you for having the foresight to ask - I
           | don't know what age you were but to most kids a great
           | grandmother is not a source of wisdom but a distraction from
           | friends and tv. I hope she told you lots :-)
        
         | thatsamonad wrote:
         | It's mind-blowing to me that he was alive during both the
         | American Civil War as well as both World Wars. Those events
         | seem so far apart because of the technology differences in how
         | they were fought, but when you place them in the context of a
         | single man's life it's astonishing how close in time they
         | actually were.
        
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