{"id":247023,"date":"2026-05-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/tech-thoughts-when-your-grandmother-makes-you-see-the-limits-and-wonders-of-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:20:07","slug":"tech-thoughts-when-your-grandmother-makes-you-see-the-limits-and-wonders-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/tech-thoughts-when-your-grandmother-makes-you-see-the-limits-and-wonders-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"[Tech Thoughts] When your grandmother makes you see the limits \u2013 and wonders \u2013 of technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Tech Thoughts] When your grandmother makes you see the limits \u2013 and wonders \u2013 of technology<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/technology\/features\/tech-thoughts-grandmother-eulogy-limits-wonders-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-17 01:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.rappler.com<\/a><\/p>\n

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tThere may come a time that I will be a little like my grandmother, and I will offer any curious children \u2013 either my own or those of my cousins \u2013 the lessons of my life that I know I can impart to them\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

My grandmother Leticia was not a technology-inclined person, but she was strong-willed and kind enough to teach you things if you were inclined to learn something from her and willing to ask.<\/p>\n

I remember one of the earliest things she taught me as a child was how to sew by hand. With enough thread and a needle, I learned I could repair a sock tear, or turn a bunch of unused socks into a makeshift rag. <\/p>\n

Socks-to-ragmaking is a simple skill I learned quickly in the short sessions I had with her as a bored child, but it\u2019s one I grew up forgetting because of all the new things I could do instead with technology, like talk to people on a telephone, or watch cartoons on a television, or play Tetris on a computer.<\/p>\n

As time passed, and she grew older and less alert, the technologies we used advanced at a pace she may never have imagined. We used what tech was available across her lifetime to make sure her family\u00a0stayed whole as the years went on. <\/p>\n

She died at the age of 97 on Monday, May 11, at around 11:05 pm, with family locally alerted immediately through smartphone calls, Messenger texts, and Viber messages. Our family abroad was filled in by the time the funeral home\u2019s team took her out of our house past 1:30 am of Tuesday.<\/p>\n

We used Canva to touch up her picture for the memorial photo, and disseminated that announcement through clan messages and Facebook posts. <\/p>\n

Because of current events preventing quick access to airfare back to Manila, Zoom was the app of choice so that family in the Philippines and across the United States could hold novenas for her until May 19, when she will be inurned….<\/p>\n

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