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  1. This is my first practice AWA task. Any feedback will be appreciated. As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate. 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. Here is my response : While technological advances over the last century have catapaulted mankind from the age when Blackberry and Apple were just fruits to present day where they are much more than just fruits,reliying on technology for more and more tasks has deteriorated our ability to think and analyze. It is without doubt that we stand at the acme of our understanding of the world as we know it today. Computers have aided us in exploring the universe. There has been tremendous improvement in medicare over the last few decades. Aircraft have changed the way we travel. The internet has changed the way we access information and connect with people across the world. Flying has become a lot more efficient because of advances in technology. The most far reaching impact that advances in technology has on humans is that it takes the responsibility of doing the repetitive, mundane tasks and free up time for us to think of other more profound and complex problems. But this is where the problem lies. Humans have,over the years, ushered in technology into almost every aspect of their lives to do tasks for them. This leaves little to no task that humans want to perform on their own. This inhenrent tendency to delegate tasks to gains in technology has impaired their thinking. High School students have noticed an average drop of grades in maths due to their perpetual reliance on calculators and internet to complete their assignments. With the rise of the internet, the availability of information has improved drastically. One can access any text, story, or a fact at the touch of a few buttons. This availability of information while good has over the years reduced our information retention capacity. Thus humans spend more time looking up the same thing again. Thus, the advantage of freeing up time from routine, repetitive tasks seems to be lost. Things take a more sinister turn when human lives are at stake. It is no doubt that the introduction of computers in cockpits have made flights much safer and efficient. However, automating the entire job of the pilot makes him less attentive while flying. In the case of Air France flight 447, which crashed over the Atlantic Ocean, pilots were caught unaware of the condition of the plane when due to bad weather, the autopilot suddnely turned off leaving the plane and the lives of 249 people in the hand of a pilot who was caught unaware and could not control the aircraft. The tragedy of the Air France flight 447 is a stark reminder of how technology can impair our ability to think. Thus, while reliance on technology has no doubt improved our way of life and brought about many positive impacts in our lives we must not rely on it for every trivial task we encounter lest, when technology fails, we are caught unaware with no practise nor ability to think and analyse.
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