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Surviving progress essay: How does technology transform us?

For the last decades, technology has been evolving exponentially and our dependance ad addiction to them has been growing alongside them. However, I don't think it's for the best. Technology transforms us by making us dumber.

For starters, the usage of texting doesn't help one become smarter. Using abbreviations and other writing shortcuts makes one forget how to write well and without mistakes. The number of text message users is growing at a fast pace. They usually want the message they're sending to be written and read rapidly. This causes to increase the number of grammatical mistakes. Since these people usually text on a daily basis, those mistakes are repeated many times and

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