The first smartphone was released in 1992. By then year 2020 there may be as many as 2.5 billion smartphones in the world. The use of smartphones is decreasing our collective intelligence because we are reliant on the technology and not our own minds. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

We live in a world where
smartphones
have become an integral part of daily life
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and over the years the dependency on these devices became a reality
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Personally i
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Personally, I
Personally I
partly agree with the argument that the use of
smartphones
is playing a big role in the
reliancy
certainty based on past experience
reliance
on the technology and decrease the dependency on our
mind
  On the one hand
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smartphones
bring
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brings
many benefits regarding how to get the information easily and in the fastest way
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to
access to
internet
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the internet
almost all the time
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Therefore
, the human brain has more access to
significant amount
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a significant amount
significant amounts
of data
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For example
, if someone wants to search the history of a
definite
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defining
era in the human life
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he will get that piece of information very easily
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Because of all the aforementioned human intellectual has become more
broadend
bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
burdened
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On the other hand
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the daily use of
smartphones
has bring
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has brought
laziness and dependency on these gadgets making people do not exert any effort to remember or rely on their
mind
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For example
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there are a lot of times when we use the calculator on our
smartphones
to do
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doing
a very simple calculation, and when we try to remember any information about any subject we directly ask for the help from google
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In conclusion
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although
smartphones
has become
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have become
a great assistance to our
mind
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it shouldn't make us more dependent on their help
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So we can have a full benefit
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a giver or sender
from
our great
mind
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • collective intelligence
  • reliant on technology
  • problem-solving
  • problem-solving
  • cognitive skills
  • critical thinking
  • knowledge acquisition
  • connectivity
  • knowledge sharing
  • cognitive overload
  • memory retention
  • brain-training apps
  • digital literacy
  • multitask
  • attention span
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