Remember when smartphones died Episode 2-13-2026

Remember when smartphones died and nobody knew how to get anywhere? Last week, my neighbor’s twentysomething son knocked on my door asking for directions to the airport. His phone was dead, GPS wasn’t working, and he looked genuinely lost. I grabbed a pen and started drawing him a map on the back of an envelope. The kid stared at me like I was performing magic. “How do you just… know where everything is?” he asked.