Over reliance on modern technology means that people are failing to learn or are forgetting many basic skills To what extent is this true Are people becoming so reliant on modern technology that they are no longer able to do some things without it

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Over-reliance on modern technology means that people are failing to learn, or are forgetting, many basic skills.
To what extent is this true? Are people becoming so reliant on modern technology that they are no longer able to do some things without it?

New inventions are usually made to ease human’s life. However, there is a belief that technologies have been used by people so much that they became dependent from automatons and unable to master different basic skills or accomplish some tasks. I partially agree with this perspective.

First of all, it is true that technologies have already supplanted people in many spheres of life. This applies especially for such areas that require large amount of labour invested but intellectual skills are not needed, such as household chores. For instance, people these days often may do not have the need to know how to mop the floors or wash dishes because they have robot vacuum cleaner or dishwasher to do it for them. Therefore, machine users do not feel that having this such skills is important.

Nevertheless, developments in technology also can facilitate progression of other vital skills. These are usually skills that, compared to those ones mentioned above, require using knowledge and intellect. For example, nowadays, with advancements of the Internet, amount of information that people have to analyse every day has been increasing significantly. Thus, if a person must deal with huge amount of data continuously, it is quite probable that their qualities, such as critical thinking improves.

Regarding the question of people’s disability to complete some basic tasks, it already can be observed at representatives of younger generation. Many children and teenagers that were born in 2000s do not perceive handwritten text or they do not understand how to determine the time by analog clock. However, it does not seem that the lack of this abilities complicates their lives. This is caused by the fact that humanity already has alternatives for handwriting and analog clocks that are more convenient for understanding.

To sum up, from my point of view, it is true that people now have difficulties in mastering some skills because of over- reliance on inventions. In spite of this, developments in technologies also contribute into improving other important abilities.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This phrase is probably grammatically incorrect. Write 'those' instead.
Suggestion: those
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Line 7, column 189, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 2000s'.
Suggestion: in the 2000s
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Line 7, column 343, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, regarding, so, therefore, thus, for example, for instance, such as, first of all, in spite of, it is true, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1766.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 332.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31927710843 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97715938579 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.605421686747 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2637729969 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.882352941 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5294117647 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.76470588235 7.06120827912 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2414467292 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0719533906135 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0575732585946 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138582463234 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465900485407 0.056905535591 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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