Technology, while apparently aimed to simplify our lives, only makes our lives more complicated.
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 advances are the force behind the improvement in people's lives. At every technological leap, basic needs are met and satisfied, which enable humankind to reach for even higher goals and satisfy even higher order needs. We are continuously improving our living standards, getting more productive and being able to do more, and technology plays a key role in this evolution. Technology, while apparently complicating our lives, significantly simplifies them and improve their overall quality.
Throughout history, technology leaps enabled humankind to not only survive, but thrive. Continuous advances in agriculture, for instance, allowed communities, cities and states to flourish by providing high quality food to an ever-increasing population. Technology breakthroughs in transportation made possible navigation, exploring new continents, inventing the steam engine, automobiles, and airplanes, connecting the whole world. Communication tools, such as radio, TV, and more recently the internet, fostered economic growth and brought people together. In healthcare, technology enabled such an improvement that global population and life expectancy more than doubled in past centuries.
At every major technological breakthrough, the simplification and improvement in life's standards enabled humans to pursue even higher goals, stretching to achieve more improvements. For example, the simplification and improvement in people's lives brought by the steam engine and the industrial revolution inspired entrepreneurs and scientists to invent the automobile. In time, this inspired new entrepreneurs and scientists to dream about flying, and then, in time, we literally reached for the stars, landing on the moon in 1969.
Some can argue that, by restricting usage of technological tools, people would live simpler lives, avoiding all kinds of complications. But that's a fallacy: that would only avoid modern complications, but would bring back old ones. For example, consider any tribe isolated from the world, which usually don't benefit from all main major technology breakthroughs listed above. There are several examples of such tribes in Brazil, Africa or New Zealand. These tribes would not have any modern-life complications, such as traffic jams. However, they continue to face very basic complications, such as hunting for food. Developed societies don't have to worry about that anymore: the life of their people is simple as these basic needs are already met.
At the core of technological breakthroughs is the human desire to solve problems, improve living standards and reach for higher goals. That's why, in the end, technology always brought and will continue to bring simpler and better lives to all.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, however, if, so, then, while, for example, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.5258426966 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2336.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 403.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.79652605459 5.05705443957 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16666339898 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583126550868 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 713.7 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.1440185639 60.3974514979 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 111.238095238 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1904761905 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85714285714 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.107357832008 0.243740707755 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0340718042077 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389596522771 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0644691888851 0.150359130593 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.048136075471 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 48.8420337079 72% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.36 12.1639044944 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => 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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