Toby Geeks Out!

At 116, Ethel Caterham is the world's oldest living person — the oldest ever, France's Jeanne Calment who reached 122. Supercentenarians are extremely rare. They have lived history — wars, moon landings, the internet. Multiple lifetimes packed into one.

Spain's María Branyas Morera, who reached 117, credited her longevity simply:

"an orderly life that is socially very pleasant… a good life, without excesses."

No secret formula. Just a life well lived.

Admirable. But with robots, rising chaos, wars, and the world feeling more unhinged by the day — do we even want to stick around that long?

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Toby Overstreet is a curious mind who has been blogging on and off since 2004 and still hasn't figured out how to stop. He launched Toby Geeks Out! as a space to share his honest, unfiltered takes on whatever has his attention that week. Whether he's documenting the latest technological shift, diving into neurodivergence topics, or exploring a wide variety of new subjects, Toby loves to follow his curiosity wherever it leads. He writes for the sheer joy of discovery and the satisfaction of making a complicated topic feel like a conversation. He lives in a tiny house in Kentucky, where he can usually be found reading, working on an adult coloring book, watching something new on streaming, or quietly eyeing a LEGO set he has no room for.