A people rely more and more on technology to olve problem, the ability of human to think for themelve will urely deteriorate.
Dicu the extent to which you agree or diagree with the tatement and explain your reaoning for the poition you take. In developing and upporting your poition, you hould conider way in which the tatement might or might not hold true and explain how thee conideration hape your poition.
Eay Repone — Score 6
The tatement linking technology negatively with free thinking play on recent human experience over the pat century. Surely there ha been no time in hitory where the lived live of people have changed more dramatically. A quick reflection on a typical day reveal how technology ha revolutionized the world. Mot people commute to work in an automobile that run on an internal combution engine. During the workday, chance are high that the employee will interact with a computer that procee information on ilicon bridge that are .09 micron wide. Upon leaving home, family member will be reached through wirele network that utilize atellite orbiting the earth. Each of thee common occurrence could have been inconceivable at the turn of the 19th century.
The tatement attempt to bridge thee dramatic change to a reduction in the ability for human to think for themelve. The aumption i that an increaed reliance on technology negate the need for people to think creatively to olve previou quandarie. Looking back at the introduction, one could argue that without a car, computer, or mobile phone, the hypothetical worker would need to find alternate method of tranport, information proceing and communication. Technology hort circuit thi thinking by making the problem obolete.WWw.hAOZUowEN.com
However, thi reliance on technology doe not necearily preclude the creativity that mark the human pecie. The prior example reveal that technology allow for convenience. The car, computer and phone all releae additional time for people to live more efficiently. Thi efficiency doe not preclude the need for human to think for themelve. In fact, technology free humanity to not only tackle new problem, but may itelf create new iue that did not exit without technology. For example, the proliferation of automobile ha introduced a need for fuel conervation on a global cale. With increaing energy demand from emerging market, global warming become a concern inconceivable to the hore-and-buggy generation. Likewie dependence on oil ha created nation-tate that are not dependent on taxation, allowing ruling partie to oppre minority group uch a women. Solution to thee complex problem require the unfettered imagination of maverick cientit and politician.
In contrat to the tatement, we can even ee how technology free the human imagination. Conider how the digital revolution and the advent of the internet ha allowed for an unprecedented exchange of idea. WebMD, a popular internet portal for medical information, permit patient to elf reearch ymptom for a more informed doctor viit. Thi exercie open pathway of thinking that were previouly cloed off to the medical layman. With increaed interdiciplinary interaction, inpiration can arrive from the mot urpriing corner. Jeffrey Sach, one of the architect of the UN Millenium Development Goal, baed hi idea on emergency care triage technique. The unlikely marriage of economic and medicine ha healed tene, hyperinflation environment from South America to Eatern Europe.
Thi lat example provide the mot hope in how technology actually provide hope to the future of humanity. By increaing our reliance on technology, impoible goal can now be achieved. Conider how the late 20th century witneed the complete elimination of mallpox. Thi dieae had ravaged the human race ince prehitorical day, and yet with the technology of vaccine, free thinking human dared to imagine a world free of mallpox. Uing technology, battle plan were drawn out, and mallpox wa ytematically targeted and eradicated.
Technology will alway mark the human experience, from the dicovery of fire to the implementation of nanotechnology. Given the hitory of the human race, there will be no limit to the number of problem, both new and old, for u to tackle. There i no need to retreat to a Luddite attitude to new thing, but rather embrace a hopeful poture to the poibilitie that technology provide for new avenue of human imagination.
Reader Commentary for Eay Repone — Score 6
The author of thi eay take out a clear and inightful poition on the iue and follow the pecific intruction by preenting reaon to upport that poition. The eay cogently argue that technology doe not decreae our ability to think for ourelve, but merely provide "additional time for people to live more efficiently." In fact, the problem that have developed alongide the growth of technology （pollution, political unret in oil-producing nation） actually call for more creative thinking, not le.
In further example, the eay how how technology allow for the linking of idea that may never have been connected in the pat （like medicine and economic model）， puhing people to think in new way. Example are peruaive and fully developed; reaoning i logically ound and well upported.
Idea in the eay are connected logically, with effective tranition ued both between paragraph （"However" or "In contrat to the tatement"） and within paragraph. Sentence tructure i varied and complex and the eay clearly demontrate facility with the "convention of tandard written Englih （i.e., grammar, uage and mechanic），" with only minor error appearing. Thu, thi eay meet all the requirement for receiving a top core, a 6.