As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
I disagree with this claim for several reasons. The 21st century has managed to progressed so far in the field of science and technology only by ignoring this claim. If the scientists believed that their innovations are leading to a deterioration of the human brain, would they have gone forward with them? Probably not. Yes, the ultimate aim of technology IS to make tasks easier, it definitely does not want the human abilities to stop evolving.
While it's correct to say, for example, that if a student uses the calculator to perform simple calculations like 4+3 and 5*4, he is definitely not doing himself any favors, it's important to remember that the calculator was NOT made for that purpose. The calculator was made to ease the task of large calculations, for example, finding the sum of 4331909 and 566749282. Programming, is done to ease tasks which require computing such sums multiple times. So, it's important to remember the situations in which using technology to make something easier is justified. Nobody can do that but the user himself. Once this factor is taken into consideration, the uses of technology are more credible.
It's also important to remember that relying on technology is not as easy as they say. There's a learning curve associated with every new product. I remember how difficult it was to get my mother to be able to even check her mail on a web browser. That means people are exercising their brains to get used to technology. Relying on technology actually enables people to spend their mental and temporal resources on other, more important things. As a Computer Science student, I can confirm this. Working on a face recognition research project, I spend my time trying out various frameworks on my data-set, and having written one script to compute the accuracy of a particular framework, I do not need to spend my time repeating those computations for every framework.
Similarly, creating such products which enable people to do daily tasks easily, is not trivial itself. Creating robots, autonomous cars, security systems is complex. How can the average human intelligence be reducing, when such convoluted processes are being made possible by humans.
Navigation, something I rely on to a great extent, has made it possible for me to understand complex routes. Online dictionaries, which offer etymology and pronunciations, have made my understanding of the English language so much better. I manage my finances better by using a simple utility on my phone. I make to-do lists, set reminders, plan my day better using apps on my phone. Nothing in this list is affecting my ability to think, as I am the one who is telling my device what to do, and when to do it.
Before using some technological solution to the task at hand, one should always ask themselves if there is a solution which does not involve technology and what is the cost associated with choosing the second solution over the former. If the cost is not too much, he should go ahead with the latter. If, however, there is a significant cost, there is no harm in going ahead with the former.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 87, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
... technology is not as easy as they say. Theres a learning curve associated with every ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'similarly', 'so', 'while', 'as to', 'for example', 'to a great extent']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.203045685279 0.240241500013 85% => OK
Verbs: 0.19627749577 0.157235817809 125% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0761421319797 0.0880659088768 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0592216582064 0.0497285424764 119% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0710659898477 0.0444667217837 160% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0913705583756 0.12292977631 74% => OK
Participles: 0.0659898477157 0.0406280797675 162% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.80821708495 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0456852791878 0.030933414821 148% => OK
Particles: 0.00169204737733 0.0016655270985 102% => OK
Determiners: 0.0846023688663 0.0997080785238 85% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.010152284264 0.0249443105267 41% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0203045685279 0.0148568991511 137% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3118.0 2732.02544248 114% => OK
No of words: 527.0 452.878318584 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.9165085389 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.345351043643 0.366273622748 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.280834914611 0.280924506359 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.195445920304 0.200843997647 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.121442125237 0.132149295362 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80821708495 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 284.0 219.290929204 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53889943074 0.48968727796 110% => OK
Word variations: 66.6175234449 55.4138127331 120% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 18.1724137931 23.380412469 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.0996315128 59.4972553346 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.517241379 141.124799967 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1724137931 23.380412469 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.413793103448 0.674092028746 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 46.2559052542 51.4728631049 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.10362694301 1.64882698954 67% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378396323218 0.391690518653 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.115863960572 0.123202303941 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.108692398533 0.077325440228 141% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.480911879641 0.547984918172 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.175801189944 0.149214159877 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110064163951 0.161403998019 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742249609623 0.0892212321368 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.226449768274 0.385218514788 59% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.128956485862 0.0692045440612 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204603089786 0.275328986314 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.085369234301 0.0653680567796 131% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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