As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
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.
there is no doubt that modern people have become increasingly dependent on advanced technologies to solve many problems in different fields. Whether or not our abilities to think independently would deteriorate over time depends on the specific roles we play in the modern society. For people who develop the technologies to solve problems, their abilities to think will be sharpened continuously as they have to refine the technologies to meet new demands of the end users. For people who participate in the policy making regarding the use of technologies, their thinking capabilities will also improve as they are forced to ponder on the fundamental problems related to technology and society. Nevertheless, the statement may hold true for those people who do not actively seek opportunities for critical and creative thinking in this technology-driven society.
Consider the scientists and engineers who are responsible for developing the theoretical and practical aspects of the new technologies. It is true that they also rely on technologies to solve their problems in research and product developments. but they also rely on their own thinking abilities to solve problems in their works. For example, software engineers of mobile apps rely on the mobile programming platforms to develop the apps as the platform can help the engineers to visualize the user interface of the apps. The computers they use can also collect and analyze the user data for the software engineers to better understand how the users behave in response to different app design decisions. but ultimately, no computer softwares can replace the engineers in solving the key problems such as how to attract more users and how to improve the quality of user
experiences. If the engineers are to improve the mobile apps, they still have to think by themselves to decide how to improve the design by taking into account the data provided by different tools. likewise, the computer scientists are challenged to optimize the algorithms used in different programs to reduce the time required to run the programs. sophisticated computer programs such as Matlab can help the scientists to simulate different algorithms and get data on their computational performance. but the computer scientists have to think by themselves to tweet the mathematical models and develop more efficient algorithms.
The development of new technologies also challenges those people responsible for formulating policies and rules regulating the use of technologies. The popularity of social networking sites such as facebook and Twitter presents a wide variety of social problems such as cyberbullying, hacking and privacy violation that call for the introduction of new rules and policies. Government officials, legislators and experts in relevant fields have to work together to address these issues through developing more sophisticated policies and laws. For example, facebook has now gathered a staggeringly large amount of data about its users in digital forms and used the data to to make profits in many different ways. To address issues like these, the policy makers will of course rely on the state-of-the-art technologies for communications such as email, video conferencing and even facebook to collect feedback from the users and data from different sources. they may also rely on statistical software packages such as SPSS to analyze the data. but the technologies can never make the decisions for them. they still have to think about these issues from different perspectives and come up with their own decisions. As a result, for these policy makers, this statement does not hold true, either.
The concern that reliance on technology to solving problems may lead to the deterioration of thinking abilities is more valid for the people who do not have the opportunities to think creatively and critically as a result of technological development. For example, as tvs become prevalent, people rely on this technology for news, entertainment or even baby-sitting. As tv offers a multimedia stream of news, there is no need to read newspaper critically and make one’s own decisions. As tv episodes brings people amusement 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, people do not have to think about what to do to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. As tv can keep the children busy and occupied for hours, parents do not need to think about how to develop interesting and creative activities for their children. For the people who rely on tv or similar technologies to solve the problems in their daily life, they may gradually lose the abilities to develop more creative solutions through their own thinking.
computer scientists and programmers like to say, “there are two kinds of people: those who know binary numbers and those who don’t.” likewise, in the age of technology, there are also two kinds of people: those who think about issues related to technologies and
those who let technologies to think for them. For the former, the development of technologies will stimulate them to think more and their abilities to think will grow over time. As for the latter group, their abilities to think for themselves are likely to decline as the technologies have deprived them of the opportunities to think.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, likewise, may, nevertheless, regarding, so, still, as for, for example, no doubt, of course, such as, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 35.0 14.8657303371 235% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 124.0 58.6224719101 212% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4441.0 2235.4752809 199% => OK
No of words: 846.0 442.535393258 191% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24940898345 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.3931511331 4.55969084622 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05305053907 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 329.0 215.323595506 153% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.388888888889 0.4932671777 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1400.4 704.065955056 199% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0538129705 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.575757576 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6363636364 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.24242424242 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 7.80617977528 218% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 25.0 10.2758426966 243% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.294583454708 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.095438247042 0.0831039109588 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686043257575 0.0758088955206 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16393090955 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0907535084607 0.0667264976115 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 178.0 100.480337079 177% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.