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Title: Historical quote
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 22/12/2021 14:12:11

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

Title: Re: Historical quotes
Post by: alancalverd on 22/12/2021 17:08:17

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.

Title: Re: Historical quote
Post by: JadenWatson on 03/03/2022 13:14:19

There are doubts that Churchill said this,

Title: Re: Historical quote
Post by: Origin on 03/03/2022 18:01:53

Quote from: JadenWatson on 03/03/2022 13:14:19

There are doubts that Churchill said this,

Especially since he died before the invention of cell phones.

Title: Re: Historical quote
Post by: alancalverd on 04/03/2022 00:34:24

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.