As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The wonders of technology continue to advance at a staggering rate every year. Sixty years ago, the thought of the Internet may have seemed alien to even the most advanced scientists. While technology continues to augment our lives and generally improve it for the better, our over-reliance in technology has made us dependent and will cause the ability to think for ourselves to deteriorate.
Years ago it would have been a crazy concept to even mention a device that includes a phone, camera, watch, voice recorder, and Internet browser. Now, smartphones like the iPhone are almost ubiquitous among Americans. The capabilities encountered in these smart phones now dwarf even the million dollar systems that were used to send a man to the moon. It is interesting to think about how something that could have the computing power to put us on the moon will reduce our ability to think for ourselves. Take for example the use of Global Positioning Satellites and navigation software. Years ago traveling required purchasing a paper map and navigating the streets using a compass and a decent sense of direction. Now, the elimination of using basic navigation has turned smartphone users into people who only need to input an address and press “Go”. The need to memorize multiplication tables and learn how to divide can be easily defeated by quickly pulling out a phone. One simple device has created a generation of people that are almost intrinsically tied to a small piece of technology, and far removed from autonomously completing what used to be everyday tasks.
Technology has allowed for information to be placed at our fingertips. The millions of gigabytes that are accessible almost instantly via a computer can be overwhelming. This information has lead to a smarter and better-informed generation that the previous ones. Students can access droves of information to create projects and write papers. Doctors can look up any disease and have entire lists of symptoms, treatments, and warnings within seconds. With so much information available, it is inevitable that humans will want it quicker and condensed. Before the internet and electronic books, students spent hours at the library referencing books and written articles to find sources of information. These critical think and research methods will ultimately diminish as a person can now talk to their digital assistants on the phone and receive instant answers.
Today most of our infrastructure is linked together by technology. Fail safes are placed in the event of a power outage or a deliberate attack. Much of our information floats around somewhere in space or stored on an electronic device somewhere. When the year 2000 came around, the public was in panic that “Y2K” would cause a worldwide shutdown of all infrastructure due to a programming error in the clocks of computers. This chaos never occurred, but what if they power doesn’t return after that one outage? Humans are so reliant on technology that they may not be able to function themselves. Though not everyone will perish, a sizeable amount may. Examples like these can be seen when nurses in a hospital in New Orleans after the flood tried to take care of their patients in a powerless facility. Being reliant on automatic pumps that push medications for them, they were unable to figure out simple drug calculations. As a result, many people died from incorrect drug dosages. This can also be seen when a person’s phone dies and they are hours from their phone stuck without GPS navigation.
Ultimately, technology will reduce the capacity of humans to think for themselves. The convenience of technology causes a reliance that permeates through almost every aspect of life. We can see examples of technology by looking all around us and it will only become more integrated as the field continues to increase. As humans, we must always keep the possibility of not having the technology in the back of our heads to ensure that we prepare for contingencies that can occur.
- As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoni 97
- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the pos 73
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'while', 'for example', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.257181942544 0.238963963785 108% => OK
Verbs: 0.15731874145 0.154291517835 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0588235294118 0.0886310499679 66% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0533515731874 0.0506014161523 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0410396716826 0.0449626384858 91% => OK
Prepositions: 0.116279069767 0.123526278965 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0478796169631 0.0379742944744 126% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.88393193998 2.82910677849 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0383036935705 0.0316879551592 121% => OK
Particles: 0.00410396716826 0.0014075125626 292% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0957592339261 0.0950106342287 101% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.03146374829 0.0245489744465 128% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0218878248974 0.0157978311181 139% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4065.0 2899.98275862 140% => OK
No of words: 664.0 478.390804598 139% => OK
Chars per words: 6.12198795181 6.0591788892 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.07623851424 4.65681771538 109% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.367469879518 0.369966551584 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.272590361446 0.285172536893 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201807228916 0.207245337619 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.144578313253 0.136322040163 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88393193998 2.82910677849 102% => OK
Unique words: 360.0 234.298850575 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542168674699 0.492565540709 110% => OK
Word variations: 72.1797810848 56.8184620615 127% => OK
How many sentences: 35.0 21.1264367816 166% => OK
Sentence length: 18.9714285714 23.7468607788 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.2423552935 62.0618507366 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.142857143 143.81877709 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9714285714 23.7468607788 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.285714285714 0.728815259664 39% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.71264367816 39% => OK
Readability: 46.230464716 52.2641144681 88% => OK
Elegance: 1.67391304348 1.64547068916 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.456312761711 0.39480681544 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.071957720082 0.11556216369 62% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0482256535471 0.0736162880345 66% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.421210482257 0.531340600358 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.14757486927 0.15197228837 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142137194177 0.158818324754 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0831163800913 0.0851127212816 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.407119632064 0.388921930462 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0882105221149 0.0677916285025 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.328128636716 0.28015025965 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0540587453337 0.0610219844235 89% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.8591954023 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.30459770115 170% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.96264367816 242% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 12.0 8.10632183908 148% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.93390804598 178% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 3.04597701149 263% => OK
Total topic words: 27.0 15.0862068966 179% => OK
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Rates: 91.1 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 5.5 Out of 6