As a child, 97-year-old Olive Horrell grew up on a rural farm in Montana. She got around on a horse and buggy, did not have electricity, and did not even own a radio. When she was eight years old, her family moved to California, where they struggled and lived through the Great Depression. Indeed, she had seen many technological developments in her lifetime. From the very first computer she saw, which was 3-by-3 feet large and used punch cards to operate, to being given a private tour around the Google Campus to be granted her wish to see the future.

At Google, Horell took a ride in a self-driving car, tried on a virtual reality headset, and saw other technologies being developed by the creative and innovative minds at the company headquarters. It was a wish helped granted by the Wish of a Lifetime non-profit organization which grants the wishes of seniors. Google's own co-founder, Sergey Brin, is one of the groups biggest individual donors and supporters.

According to reports, Horell is no stranger to adventure. As a young woman, she went all over the world on kayaking expeditions and even went to Nepal to climb its famous peaks. But her visit to Google's Mountain View Campus still blew her away.

Her tour included the works – She tried out Google Translate, Liftwear spoon which helps people living with tremors in their limbs to feed themselves, and had a nice chat with one of the company's top engineers about The Cloud and why it is “up there.”

She was also awed by Google Photos' face detection technology which accurately identified the face of a baby in one photo to belong to a 13-year-old girl in another.

“Push a button and you have history right in front of you,” she said.

Her tour of the future was made even more special by a rare appearance of Wish of a Lifetime's founder Jeremy Bloom.

The former two-time Olympic skier and NFL player was inspired to set up Wish of A Lifetime by his experience with his own grandparents. Today, he runs a tech company in Arizona, but still works hard to grant the wish of at least one senior a day.

Among the wishes the foundation has granted was a grand reunion among sisters who were all in their hundreds, and a special trip for a woman from Mississippi to see the ocean for the first time in her life.

Horell heartily thanked Bloom for his work in granting seniors their wishes, saying that most of the time they are left to be forgotten and unseen by society. She said her trip to Google was certainly worth the three years it took for her to decide which of her wishes she wanted granted.

“Certainly in my wildest dreams, I couldn’t conceive of what I saw today.”

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