[Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)]

"Smartphones will destroy the great way we communicate..." - Winston Churchill

[alancalverd]

I think you are looking down the wrong end of your historical telescope and speaking from the wrong end of your alimentary canal. Two wrongs do not make a right.

[JadenWatson]

There are doubts that Churchill said this,

[Origin]

There are doubts that Churchill said this,

Especially since he died before the invention of cell phones.

[alancalverd]

Smartphones have definitely destroyed communication, as you can see by watching people in restaurants staring at screens instead of talking to each other. But dumb mobile phones had exactly the opposite effect as they allowed friends and families to chat wherever and whenever.