Crossing Centuries

A lunar lander and the space shuttle.

At a recent talk, I joked my career crosses two centuries. While centuries change without regard to human society, it’s amazing how big of a change we saw when we crossed 1900 and how equally big was the crossing of 2000. Those who straddled the century before and the next saw an amazing level of change, one those who grew up within the century have a hard time comprehending. Those born in the late 1800s and lived a long life witnessed the development of…