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97-Year-Old ‘Sees Future’ at Google

Olive Horrell, 97, was born in rural Montana in a house that had no electricity and no indoor plumbing. She said she didn’t know what a radio was and to go anywhere required using a horse and buggy. Imagine her surprise when she got to visit Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, recently as part of the “Wish of a Lifetime” program, a nonprofit group that grants wishes to senior citizens. While there, Horrell got to test ride a driverless car, create a “Google Doodle” and...

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