GRE Issue: As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability ... Over the past few years, technology has made exponential growth. The human race has been greatly assisted by technology. If we want to travel to a faraway place, an airplane will take us there in a matter of hours. When we find ourselves lost in a new place, the GPS on our smart phones will help us easily navigate our way through the strange city. Internet-connected computers enable companies to set up branches around the globe and operating 24/7. Technology has helped humans achieve what they could hardly image a few decades ago. Therefore, there rises the concern that with the increasing use of technology, human ability to think for themselves will regress. As far as I am concerned, this is very unlikely to happen. As I have mentioned above, the human life has been greatly supported by technology. However, if we look closer at the type of tasks that humans have relinquished and delegated to machine, we will notice that machines mostly take on tasks and jobs that are predictable, repetitive and routine while humans still play an important role in humans still play an important role in managing the unpredictable. Nowadays, computers are helping people conduct web researches, handle massive amounts of data analysis and landing airplanes, tasks that require standard operations. Endeavors into creating thinking computers or superintelligent robots yet come to very much fruition and demand staggering amounts of human and financial resources. Even if one day the development of technology reached the point where machine intelligence parallels or even exceeds humans, I believe that it still does not spell the end of human cognitive activities. As already depicted by many sci-fi movies and novels, superintelligent robots exhibit intelligence indistinguishable from that of humans is the worst nightmare of humanity. That means the walking steel will be capable of disagreeable qualities and weaknesses of humans as well, such as greed, envy or selfishness. If this did happen, humans would be forced to come up with ways to mitigate the effects and handle the consequences. Therefore, I believe the ability of humans to think will be unlikely to deteriorate with technology playing an increasing supportive role in our life, because most of what technology is capable of accomplishing is routine work and requires human supervision and direction.