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Title: Technology gives us the ability to control our lives. How far do you agree?
Description: General Paper AS Level essay (8004)

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Technology gives us the ability to control our lives
...
So
many of these ingenious inventions have become a staple in our modern lives
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Television and movies also, have such an enormous effect on our lives, they shape the way we think
and introduce us to new adventures we would never have thought of doing
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Do we have the wildfire tamed or is it unfurling more and more each day?
Modern technology has brought back hope to countless patients, such as people who are
not able to do basic tasks that we take for granted such as type an email to a friend or search online
for information
...
A hero arises by the name of Julius
Sweetland, a software developer, who has come up with a program that allows the paralyzed
patients to use their laptops as per usual just by the movement of their eyes
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These victims are essentially prisoners held
captive in their own bodies and thus are not able to continue on with their lives but with this kind of
technology they can take back what was rightfully theirs
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The Stanford University had conducted a study where the results proved we use
our subconscious brains 90-95 % of the time and the conscious brain an astonishing 5% only proving
the fact that our subconscious thinks and processes information we way before our conscious minds
too
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A study has shown that the average child
watches around 20-30 hours of television per week according to the Stanford research, this in turn
would have an effect on the careers kids choose when they grow up
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Social networking applications and sites became a trend in the early 21st century, lives are
lived through a small screen rather than the eyes
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According to a survey, only 12% of teenagers had reported
visiting a social media site only once a day and 6% reporting weekly
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Vacations are not officially vacations unless a picture
has been posted onto Instagram or parties are not considered worth-while unless updates are
posted onto Snapchat
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From
this aspect technology has not given us the ability to control our lives rather taken control over
them
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The possibilities that came with this invention has widened more as we are able to
commute faster and to greater distances
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This has given us the ability to control and change our lives in a multitude of ways:
one being there is more leisure time and from this perspective, modern automation form of
travelling has given us the ability to control our lives
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Technology has the remarkable ability to be a great tool for taking more control of our lives
as well as the ability to control us
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We live in the dawn of a new era
with myriads of revolutionary ideology invented each day and it does give us the opportunity to
control our lives and live them to the fullest
...
One thing is for sure, technology will affect us even in the smallest way, and we
cannot run away from this
...
” Everything has a price
Title: Technology gives us the ability to control our lives. How far do you agree?
Description: General Paper AS Level essay (8004)