In my life, I have seen the introduction of the World Wide Web, the invention of the supercomputer, DVDs, the cell phone, ipods, and everything digital. I have been told that they have genetically engineered animals and completed the mapping of human DNA. I have been the recipient of newly developed vaccines, birth control, and allergy medication. Actually, in the last thirty years there have been more advancements, inventions, and alterations to everyday life than I can list here. But, why I am thinking about this you ask?
Yes, we just celebrated my great-grandmother's 100th birthday. Elizabeth (Betty) Drummond Likely was born May 16, 1909. Can you imagine the change she's seen and the things that have come about in her lifetime?!
There are some links below, but just to give you a glimpse . . . the car, the short wave radio, commercial airlines, insulin, penicillin, transition from an agricultural society to an urban one, communism, atomic bombs, Gandhi, women's rights, civil rights, landing on the moon, two World Wars - the list goes on and on.
Makes me wonder what all will occur in my lifetime. What first-hand memories will I have to tell me great grandchildren? What things will I remember and what will be forgotten?
Grandma and her twin sisters, who are 90 yrs old.
Inventions 1900-2000
Millenium Milestones
5 Most Important Politicians of the Last Century
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