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.
For as long as human beings have developed various technologies, they have looked at them with suspicion. The demonization of the tools that we use is perhaps as old as the tools themselves. But those suspicions victimize human beings, and deemphasize their ability to choose. Technology can neither simplify nor complicate a person's life. It is the individuals choices about how and whether to use it that can have such an impact.
The early man probably looked at the spear he used to hunt with suspicion, fully aware that the same tool that feeds him may lead him to kill a fellow human being or be killed. If he used it to feed himself, the spear would simplify his life. He would no longer have to hunt with his bare hands. It would also allow him to catch more delicious meals, introducing wild dear to the menu. But if he were to decide turn his spear around to his enemy. The spear would complicate his life, introducing violence to the equation of life.
Similarly, we question today whether all the technological advances that have followed that spear contribute to our wellbeing, although the bulk of use would never really dare to live our lives without them. We use technology for food, shelter, transportation, communication, and work. Yet, we complain about the stress that it causes us. We chose to live a sedentary life in front of the TV and blame the TV for the heart disease we later discover instead of blaming ourselves for chosing to be lazy. The internet may be used for cyber-bullying, pornogrophy, and streams of self-promotion on social media. Or it may be used to learn how to relax, meditate, and listen to classical music.
To be fair, this argument is heavily based on the assumption that human beings are free acting individuals and that the decisions that they make are purely their own. Yet, we live in societies of people and are highly influenced by the decision of the people that live around us. What do we do when those people have collectively chosen to choose technology to stress themselves out, live in constant loneliness and depression, compete to develop the nuclear technologies that can destroy the world? Well we resist it. As individuals, whether for the sake of humanity, religion, our families, ourselves, or anything that motivates us. This has always been life's main puzzle and no technological advancement has changed this reality.
It is true, technology simply makes the wrong decisions too convenient. But in this stream of self-victimization, we like to forget that it makes the right decisions equally convenient as well. Technology was never there to replace an active mind, it exists to supplement it, make it more efficient, and amplify its ability to do what it deems best.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 290, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'cans'.
Suggestion: cans
...ize their ability to choose. Technology can neither simplify nor complicate a perso...
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Line 1, column 328, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...y can neither simplify nor complicate a persons life. It is the individuals choices abo...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'really', 'similarly', 'so', 'well', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.173333333333 0.240241500013 72% => OK
Verbs: 0.190476190476 0.157235817809 121% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0666666666667 0.0880659088768 76% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0552380952381 0.0497285424764 111% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0990476190476 0.0444667217837 223% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0952380952381 0.12292977631 77% => OK
Participles: 0.032380952381 0.0406280797675 80% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83382316478 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0495238095238 0.030933414821 160% => OK
Particles: 0.00190476190476 0.0016655270985 114% => OK
Determiners: 0.0742857142857 0.0997080785238 75% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0209523809524 0.0249443105267 84% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0209523809524 0.0148568991511 141% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2754.0 2732.02544248 101% => OK
No of words: 468.0 452.878318584 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.88461538462 6.0361032391 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.307692307692 0.366273622748 84% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.226495726496 0.280924506359 81% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.16452991453 0.200843997647 82% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.123931623932 0.132149295362 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83382316478 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 219.290929204 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525641025641 0.48968727796 107% => OK
Word variations: 61.8033995865 55.4138127331 112% => OK
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6194690265 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.380412469 77% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7044127619 59.4972553346 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.923076923 141.124799967 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 23.380412469 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.384615384615 0.674092028746 57% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 40.6495726496 51.4728631049 79% => OK
Elegance: 0.872928176796 1.64882698954 53% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291671365006 0.391690518653 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.105548992608 0.123202303941 86% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0792454117802 0.077325440228 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.476993996576 0.547984918172 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.146950654192 0.149214159877 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101325516774 0.161403998019 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508582204929 0.0892212321368 57% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.345183647501 0.385218514788 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0848174532601 0.0692045440612 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191455495873 0.275328986314 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0407283918681 0.0653680567796 62% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.4325221239 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.30420353982 207% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 7.22455752212 69% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 3.66592920354 218% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.70907079646 295% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.5995575221 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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