Technology, while apparently aimed to simplify our lives, only makes our lives more complicated.

Technological innovations come into life for varied reasons – out of need and necessity, when the current processes are long and tedious and when there is scope for improvement. The old mailing system through posts has largely been replaced by emails, manual banking has been improved by coalescing it with the internet and many more technological inventions have improved other outdated processes. Advancements in technology serve to simplify and automate day to day lives so that people can focus their time and energy on other important tasks.

Technology has grown leaps and bounds in the past decade and has rooted itself into a wide array of consumers and businesses, bringing along with it, much ease and simplicity in people’s lives. Take for example the invention of the internet through which communication has transformed into mediums such as Emails , Video calling and live streaming to name a few. A recruiter in London can reach out to a wide pool of job-seekers through canned emails, remotely interview candidates from all over the world through video calling services like Skype and also inform a candidate of his performance via a quick email , all in a couple of days. This is a much needed improvement over the laborious ways in the past when interviews needed to be set up personally – a process that took weeks, if not months just to declare to a much enthusiastic candidate that he wasn’t a good fit for the organization.

In the financial and banking domain, technology has enabled people to have quick access to their money via ATM's, send money between countries which are thousands of miles apart and purchase stocks and assets- all in the click of a button. Technology has indeed transformed the financial industry for the better and simplified the work and lives of the people involved in it. Comparing the current financial processes which are deeply amalgamated with technology, to those around 10 years ago where a person could only withdraw money personally from a bank and had to wait days for his cheque to get cleared after depositing, it is clear that the former has been a much welcomed change in people’s lives.

When speaking about technology, one cannot miss out how it has simplified the automotive and several other manufacturing industries. Back when a lot of man power and several days were required to assemble a single car in an assembly line, automated robots now execute the same work in far less time , with much more accuracy and while maintaining a minimum error rate. It is through technology that we can travel in underground bullet trains while avoiding the heavy city traffic and fly across cities and countries in matter of hours through airplanes.

While the obsession with incorporating technology in every aspect of our lives has simplified and made our lives easier, it has led to an over-simplification too. This over-simplification has in a way manifested itself into complications. Take for example automated homes, where lights turn on and off at the click of a button on smartphones. Do we really require that level of simplicity? Are we that lazy that we find it difficult to get out of our couch to simply flick a light switch on/off? It’s hard not to think of the famous Einstein’s quote here– “Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler”.

Technology has been deeply rooted into our quotidian lives and we have become accustomed to its use and the simplicity which it brings to us. Even if for a moment we are deprived of the luxuries which are considered basic – such as Internet, Smartphones and laptops, we would find it extremely difficult to do our daily tasks without them. I doubt if anyone would roll over to using the ancient pigeon messengers when our smartphones break down and we need to send a text message urgently. Rather, we would simply buy a new smartphone.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, really, so, thus, while, for example, speaking about, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 99.0 58.6224719101 169% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3265.0 2235.4752809 146% => OK
No of words: 654.0 442.535393258 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99235474006 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.05701727356 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9499413271 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 344.0 215.323595506 160% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525993883792 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 1017.0 704.065955056 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.2856445773 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.956521739 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.4347826087 23.4991977007 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.30434782609 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153388498672 0.243740707755 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437423670557 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.059671103497 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0770704399288 0.150359130593 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039702979322 0.0667264976115 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 153.0 100.480337079 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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