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.
I agree to a large extent with the writer’s prophecy that the use of technology has reduced our ability to think for ourselves but there are certain aspects wherein I would like to differ.
The writer, here touches upon a issue very germane to the modern world, the use of technology in our daily life and its effects on our lives and lifestyle. The writer here fears that the we have become so reliant on technology that a day might come, wherein computers and machines will think for us and our ability to think for ourselves will diminish. The most common and pertinent example to give would be the use of calculators. This simple device has made complex calculations easier and has almost eliminated errors. Hence,our dependence on a calculator has increased so much that for even smallest of calculations , we tend to search for a calculator. The number tables which might have been at the tip of our tongues in our school days, would now require us a bit of time and effort to recollect those. A person continuously involved with calculations in his work, say a bank empoloyee, would find it hard to imagine him doing his work without a calculator. So, yes , in a sense, the calculator has diminished completely the task of manual calculations which required one to be good with numbers and tables.
Another machine which is used widely everywhere and which one can say , it thinks for humans is a computer.Let us consider a program wherein, all the knowledge and expertise of a person who has pioneering achievements in a particular field, can be stored in a computer, obviously with the consent of that person. Then that information can immensely help many a others who work in that particular field and may not be as knowledgeable. But ,at the same time, this might reduce the tendency of these people to think for themselves. They , for the simplest of problems, might just refer to the stored data and get their solutions and just not take the harder route of analysing and researching for themselves and thereby limit their abilities.
So, on the face of it, it seems that the technology is limiting our abilities yet on the other hand, I feel that it does not completely diminish our abilities. We might have the luxury of calculators,computers but we need the expertise and skill to use them as well. Also we need to use our thinking to reach to a point from where we have to use a calculator or a computer. To validate my point, let us assume a task wherein an investor needs to calculate the amount of money he will earn on a particular investment which involves compounding interests. For this purpose, the person needs to understand what is a compound interest and use the formulas and his knowledge to arrive at certain calculations, from where he can use the calculator to find the answer in a proper exact number. So, herein the technology is limiting our ability but not diminishing it completely. In the future, how much affect technology has on our thinking abilities will depend on our ways and methods of using it.
So, yes the writer’s foresight seems plausible to a greater extent but you cannot completely agree with what he says.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 33.0505617978 194% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2622.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 552.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86696063424 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48731884058 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 840.6 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3809319084 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.857142857 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2857142857 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2380952381 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 7.80617977528 243% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144328557352 0.243740707755 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.046209560068 0.0831039109588 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0385271138279 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0999064423588 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.021691498014 0.0667264976115 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.57 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.