Technology is the basis of the modern society, and it is everywhere in our life, no one can avoid using them. While some people worries about technology would be harm to their abilities to think, many others have already found out ways to use technology to help them think.   Google, for example, is the biggest search engine in the world. There are billions search requests submitted on Google website every day. On New York Times, a famous news website, journalists have written several articles to reveal whether using Google Search would deteriorate human's thinking. The result shows some of the volunteers' thinking abilities do deteriorate, while others don't. The result seems not consequential, but after studied by several Professors in UC Berkley, the result shows that, the way they use Google Search would affect their memory differently.

People in the first group, when they need a Zip code, they just type "Cedar Rapids Zip Code", then the Google would give them the result, by this way, they will never remember the Zip Code of Cedar Rapids, sometimes they would even forget the zip code of the cities they’ve remembered. On the other group, for example, one of they use Google to help them analyze the currency, he typed 1 US dollar (USD) in Chinese Yuan (CNY), Google would give him the exchange rate of 1 USD to CNY, also Google would plot the trends of the recent exchange rate; when he received the result, they do statistic analyze to see if he should buy CNY, and at which rate he should buy. The two different people use Google for different purpose and they have different result. So I think it is not technology itself but the way they use it which affect their thoughts.   For programmers, they use technology a lot. When they tried to make the system work before the deadline, they would "steal" others' code, because most of the codes are similar between different projects. When they are trying to implement a quick sort algorithm, there are two ways to do it. First way is simple, Google it, then copy - paste, and deploy. It is easy and fast, but if they copy code frequently, they would lose the ability of thinking independently. From my observation, I think technology is not the main reason for those whose ability to think independently deteriorate. After taking the advantage of technology, I think we can focus more on our major, as long as we think more on how to solving problems instead of collecting data, or exchanging ideas in lieu of copy others idea, our ability to think will never deteriorate.