Olive Horrell grew up amid a smartphone and pre-computer. But when the 97-year-old great-grandmother was given a privilege to have one wish granted, she said she wanted to visit Google.
As part of a tie-up with Brookdale Senior Living, Horrell's assisted living community, and Wish of a Lifetime, an institution that gives elders the favorable circumstance to grasp some of their greatest dreams, the 97 year old Horell got the chance to tour Google's Mountain View California headquarters.
As Horrell told CNET's Lexy Savvides,of her childhood, they had no electricity, no radio, horse and buggy back then. Horrell also got the chance to come in contact with some of the more state-of-the-art technology as part of her Google VIP tour, arriving in style in a self-driving car.
There, she saw a broad dimension of the tech giant's products, from illustrating with the Google Doodle team to trying out a "smart spoon" designed to help people with tremors.
Horrell was specifically fascinated with the virtual reality simulation.
According to Horrell as she pressed on the Google Cardboard virtual reality viewfinder up to her eyes, all she could say in her amusement was "You mean all the way around? Where are these coming from?"
Horrell is not a beginner when it comes to technology. She uses her laptop for email, reads on a Kindle, and once called Apple Tech Support when she required to fix her computer.
Regardless of being tagged as one of the greatest tech-savvy nonagenarians ever known, she still desired to acquire more information about how Google's technology worked.
Furthermore, she was especially inquisitive about what the "cloud" was. Dave Lieb, Google Product Manager explained to her that it was a like a computer that we don't have to possess in our hands but we still have access to.
Horrell told CBS News at the end of her visit how worthwhile it was to make a wish and have it come true.
