Technology: does it deteriorate people's thinking abilities?, why? and how? Since the industrial revolution, technological inventions have become more and more vital in people's lives. Technology helps people overcome climate changes, solve complicated problems and even innovate more new technologies. Actually technology helps people advance their thinking abilities, rather than deteriorating them. I think we need first to define “thinking abilities” in order to understand the technology’s effects on them. A thinking ability has a wide range of usages. It can be social intelligence, mathematical reasoning, verbal reasoning, future prediction, informal logic, and much more. And we can use technology to develop most of these abilities; for instance in social intelligence, social media websites play an important role in connecting people from all around the world. In learning English and Spanish, I use these platforms mostly every day. Without those technologies, one would need much more time and money to learn foreign languages or even to know of other cultures. Another example in which we use technology in developing our thinking abilities is programming, which necessitates high level of reasoning and analytical thinking and at the same time depends heavily on technology. Successful programmers, developers, and designers are considered among the most intellectual, creative humans. They create new things that are used in many other fields and last for decades. The more they create and innovate using technology, the more they develop their thinking abilities. Without technology, I couldn’t sit in front of this computer writing an essay to show my analytical skills –I used technology to develop these skills-. In developing my analytical writing, I found many websites over the internet that helped me a lot. Technology helps us in carrying out a multitude of ordinary tasks, so we get much more spare time to do more complicated and advanced things. In this way, the world will continue developing. People's lives would be harder without these technological inventions. There is no doubt that older generations had some skills today's generations don't have, and the reason is that we have more machines do many things for us. However, today's generations have also developed new skills and knowledge older generations couldn't develop, simply because they neither had the time nor the technology. Examples are: 1.predicting the future weather, economic states and political reactions; 2.treating diseases that have been impossible to treat;