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.
Technological development has been hallmark of human development and it has enabled humans to tackle problems which are more complex in nature. It is false that, as people rely more on technology, their ability to think on their own deteriorates.
Technology has enabled us to save time by performing mundane tasks faster and better. We can access plethora of books, papers, and news articles on the internet, which saves time taken to commute to library or book store. Invention of motor vehicles has decreased travelling time. Food can be preserved for longer time and produced on much larger scale. This has made humans more productive.
Increased productivity and free time results in increased focus on new problems. Time and efforts, which are vital resources, are not wasted on repetitive tasks. A scientist can use computers to process huge amount of experimental data to formulate his theory by spending more time on formulating the theory, rather than spending it on process the data by himself. Robots are used to manufacture cars, which frees the human labor to focus on other tasks. Thinkers across the world are using technological advances to solve more complex problems – global warming, space travel, improving connectivity, proper governance, alternative energy sources, etc.
The argument against technology goes on like – with increased reliance on technology, people would lose the ability to perform mundane tasks, and when technology breaks down, it will be a huge problem. This is a possibility that break down of technology can cause disruptions. However, this can be dealt with by evolving technology more robust or less susceptible to breakdown. Electric cars are developed to reduce reliance on limited fuel resources. Photovoltaic cells were developed to harness clean and free energy from sunlight. Battery operated laptops are available, which can be operated during blackouts. While developing technology, we are thinking on new frontiers and tackling new problems.
It can be concluded that, technology has been aiding humans to perform mundane and repetitive tasks, enabling humans to think on challenging and complex problems which was not possible before. Hence, increased reliance on technology is not deteriorating ability of humans to think on their own.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1952.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 360.0 442.535393258 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42222222222 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86943772184 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552777777778 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 619.2 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.2543493481 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.9523809524 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1428571429 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.19047619048 5.21951772744 23% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.227008069825 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.067765610884 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.050548832781 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143083034272 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519844175761 0.0667264976115 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.