Fighting drought on a hardscrabble farm, inspecting the inside of single-engine aircraft fuselages in 46°C temperatures, and managing food safety and equipment cleaning in a remote rural market—these are just some of the jobs my 90-year old mom has had over four decades.
When she started working, few imagined a world in which fail-less farming inside climate-controlled buildings would promise to end famine. Or that a camera-toting robotic arm might have crawled into that small, hot fuselage to capture and analyze images that required human judgment and intervention.
