Earlier technological developments brought more benefits and changed the lives of ordinary people more than recent technological developments.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
In today’s world, there is a public debate related to technology. It is thought that earlier technological developments bring more benefits to normal people than the recent ones. From my perspective, I remain unconvinced with this statement.
To begin with, the most frequent factor contributing to my view is that the earlier technology was very expensive. That means mass population could not afford it. To put it in another way, only a few percentages of rich people could across the technology in earlier ages. However, in this day and age, technological devices such as cell phone, computer, communication devices and so on have become much cheaper than it used to be. One example to demonstrate this view is that according to the figure of the USA Today, the most basic computer model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 19721, which was equivalent of slightly over half a million today’s dollars. Meanwhile, in the contemporary world, people can purchase a good laptop for about $300 on the lower end or $760 on the upper end. As this example reveals, it is manifest that present technologies supply more good sides in term of prices for customers than the earlier.
In addition, one explanation to support my point of view is that convenience is another positive aspect of modern technology. With the help of research and development centres, the bulky parts of the machine have been replaced by the lighter yet stronger materials. As a result, it is easier to carry them from one location to another. This is shown by the following example. The first handheld cellular phone call weighed more than 2kg. In the meantime, the weight of a Samsung phone is just nearly 0.2kg, which is much lighter than the old. As can be seen from this example, it is obvious that current technologies are better because of their usefulness.
Given the aforementioned points, it may be concluded that up-to-date technologies supply more advantages for customers than the older. Therefore, I totally disagree with the claim presented.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, in addition, such as, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1687.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 339.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97640117994 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84560637777 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58407079646 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.0308604554 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.7894736842 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8421052632 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26315789474 7.06120827912 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239250767146 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0678871360535 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0821385111895 0.0667982634062 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157015654768 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505478691478 0.056905535591 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.0946893788 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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