84 years

When my grandmother was born:

• The USA was only 5 years removed from allowing women to vote
  
• The Great Depression was still 4 years away
• Calvin Coolidge was President
• The US was 17 years from entering WW II
• Brown vs. Board of Education was 30 years away
• Wikipedia was 76 years from it's first entry

My grandmother died last week. This has given me the opportunity to reflect on how much has changed and yet how little time we take to appreciate the changes that define each successive generation.

84 years is enough time to see societal norms shift, to see technology begin to supplant human interaction and to see what was once thought impossible, become routine.

I only hope in the next 50 years the change I see is as beneficial as the change my grandmother experienced.