Crystal's Timed Writing #5

As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.

By Ruoxi (Crystal) Qi

With the rapid development of science and technology, people nowadays spend more time relying on technology to solve problems instead of thinking by themselves. Due to this fact, some people argue that the ability of humans to think for themselves will undoubtedly deteriorate. However, technology helps improve the working efficiency and also generates new questions and challenges for people to think of and deal with.

It is true that the people do not need to think by themselves for many problems due to the development of technology. By using computer and Internet, many problems and tasks can be quickly solved. People can google their questions and get the answers online instead of thinking of the ways of how to do research and deal with the problems step by step. People can use the calculators to solve the algebraic questions instead of figuring out the right number. Therefore, the development of technology helps a lot so that people no longer need to solve many problems by the traditional ways. This could deteriorate humans’ ability to think.

However, technology greatly improves the humans’ working efficiency and helps people move on to a higher level of intellectual work instead of a lot of low-level physical work. In addition, the new technology brings about a lot of new issues that challenge people’s thinking. For example, using new nuclear technology has become a debated topic and question for people to think of how to utilize without negative effects.

In sum, technology weakens people’s thinking ability to some degree. However, the tremendous importance and great benefits of technology cannot be underestimated.