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.
There has never been a time in the history as now when the use of technology is so high. Technology has become an integral part of our lives. It is impossible to imagine a day without using the tech-equipments like our computers or mobiles. They have definitely made our lives easier in many aspects, but along with that they are also diminishing our ability to think.
Let's take the example of the mind enervating game like Chess. Now, we do not require chess boards to play, thanks to the technology. We can compete in chess with anyone around the global online. However, the computer algorithms are also now able to predict the best move given the current status of game. These moves are then given as hints to player which a player readily succumbs to. I wonder now is it really a game between two humans or rather an algorithm competing with itself.
We can also take an example of facile things in our lives which do not require too much mind effort as chess such as simple writing a mail to your boss. Even there, we have predictive texts available. The computer algorithms highly training in Natural Language Processing can process the semantics and predict the best thing to say next. Humans are not even using their own brains to even a draft a mail! This predictive text feature is in fact ubiquitous from LinkedIn, a professional platform made to build connections to simply doing a whatsapp message to your friends and family. Why has the human race become so dependent on the technology?
Technology is not only killing the ability to think to solve problems but also destroying the creativity and art. This is manifested as the songs that we hear today. If we go back 50 years, the songs are so well-written and excellent sung and composed by the musicians. Now, we have Autotune feature. Anyone can be a singer today! Just anyone! No real talent or hard work required. The technology will play it's role. The songs are also today mashups and mixes of the old hits, made by meddling some beats culled from various places. Where is originality? Where is innovation?
You might argue that technology helps to focus on real issues while easier tasks are done by technology. You might also say that more the technology, more opportunities it creates to think, for instance, someone might be building up the chess algorithm that requires a high intellectual level. That's true, but these tech-advanced people who are building up such things are actually a very meagre percentage of people. The percentage of engineers in the world is already very less, and me being an engineer myself can confidently say that the people who are actually "building up" these technologies are very less even amongst these engineers. Rest of them are merely deploying the already made technologies and moulding them to their use. Moreover, with the readily available information over internet, everything is available online in a matter of a click.
Hence, we can conclude that technology is indeed deteriorating the ability to think as the reliance upon these technologies is increasing. It has already done a great deal and will continue as artificial intelligence becomes more prominent
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, however, if, moreover, really, so, then, well, while, for instance, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2662.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 542.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91143911439 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72661768047 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538745387454 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 855.0 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.0318300646 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.1875 118.986275619 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9375 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169802964016 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0370189236781 0.0831039109588 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0435062833883 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0842337699583 0.150359130593 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0379262519998 0.0667264976115 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 14.1392134831 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.9 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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