Essay #3 Technology and the ability to think for ourselves

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

We created technology to help us solve problems. The areas in which we benefit from technology are vast and at the same time technology creates new problems. We are, in reality, becoming increasingly better at thinking for ourselves.  Today, we have to think for ourselves to solve different problems that we did pre-technology.

There are numerous reasons we depend on technology.  It helps us do things faster, more easily, and more accurately. It is a tool, but not a thinking tool. Part of our ability to think for ourselves is the ability to reason and to make decisions.  Technology cannot do this for us.