The last person from a pre-mobile age

In ET, we are proud to be regularly in direct touch with the future. Literally. But imagine our surprise when we got reliable information from the year 2125 about the last human who remembered not using a mobile phone being buried exactly a hundred years later from today. Her name was Mabel McGee, aged 137, and she died clutching a paperback novel. Mabel reportedly spoke of 'waiting for calls', 'memorising phone numbers', and 'talking without emojis' before acquiring a Nokia handset in 2006 at the age of 18. The New Jersey resident recalled walking through parks without documenting them, eating meals without photographing them. She even - wait for this - got lost more than once, and asked for directions. This, after she owned a smartphone in the 2010s.

Mabel's future death - she lives among us now - marks the extinction of the last human once immune to phantom vibrations and dopamine loops. She would, of course, go on to know the agony of 3% battery at 9 a.m. But she still remembered a pre-mobile time when she didn't have to pretend to laugh at a meme while groaning inside. We mourn her not because she'll be gone, but because she took with her the final flicker of a species that once looked up at stars instead of down at screens. Rest in peace, Mabel. You were the last of those who tasted an unplugged life before taking the infinite scroll.