"As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate."
The assertion that reliance on technology will surely deteriorate our ability to solve problems brings polarizing thoughts - both for and against. However, I feel that it is human acumen, deep insights, rational and innovative thinking in the first place which engenders a new technology. The topic in discussion asks us to first understand what we mean by technology because its wide purview has the power to encompass a motley of objects. Technology, in my perspective, is use of the latest human knowledge to improve or solve an existing problem faced by mankind. Moving from sluggish, inefficient automobiles of early twentieth century to bristling aeroplanes of the twenty first century to expedite our travels is an example of technology in the field of locomotion.
To begin with, the negative effects of technology on human brain is not mere fiction. It has been proven that since the advent of calculators, the part of the brain designed to deal with mathematics and shrunk and continues to do. Another example to discard technology and demonstrates its deleterious effect on our brain is the mobile phones. It is a common complaint of the millennial that cannot remember the phone numbers of their friends or relatives. I remember losing my phone on a holiday and in spite of all my desperate attempts to recall a number to contact a friend for help, I simply couldn’t recall any.
It is easy to carry a myopic view and declare that technology is a bane for our society, an evil which needs to be done away with, to help mankind realise its true cognitive power. Notwithstanding all the negatives of the technology discussed earlier, we need to have a holistic view of the way technology has been able to change our lives for good and in fact improved the thinking and reasoning skills of humans. To take an example of how our thinking power has only been accentuated by the products of technology, we can talk about the abacus. Abacus is a tool used in primary school to teach counting to children. Children go on to learn advanced tricks on the abacus, enabling them to do mental calculations within seconds, which would have normally needed no less than a minute for a human with a pen and a paper.
Technology has also facilitated communication among human beings and brought a plethora of information at their fingertips which can assist them in making a correct and independent decision which would not have been possible in the absence of the groundbreaking technology of the internet. It has enabled easy exchange of ideas and information, thereby, pushing humans beyond their comfort zone to come with ideas out of the box to set the world in awe.
To summarise, it is without denying that technology has negatively affected the cognitive power of humans but only to open a whole new possibility for us to think differently, rationally and come up with ideas or thoughts that were never heard before to take the world by storm.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 672, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-first
... century to bristling aeroplanes of the twenty first century to expedite our travels is an e...
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Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rd before to take the world by storm.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, i feel, in fact, in spite of, to begin with, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2463.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 502.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90637450199 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86968748491 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535856573705 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 786.6 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.2614371753 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.833333333 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8888888889 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88888888889 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155503578336 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0493042944383 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0454850190946 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.086258967772 0.150359130593 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0341436061176 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.