We are too dependent on computers

"Again, I said that they do not have access to the internet. The entire debate is about proving whether or not humans have become TOO dependent on computers. You will have to prove whether or not having access to hospitals is an excessive dependency." You did not say that they do not have access to the internet; you may have implied it, but one cannot assume that all students must use the internet to do their school work. I am not required to prove whether or not having access to hospitals is an excessive dependency because I was simply rebutting your argument of "there are many teenagers who do not have access to computers"; I had also mentioned railway stations and ATMS. The entire point of this debate was proving whether having access to computers in an excessive dependency, not hospitals. However, although having access to hospitals is in fact an excessive dependency due to common sense, I will list some basic points on why they in fact are: 1. To cure/treat patients from life-threatening illnesses. 2. To give vaccines to people that can make them immune to life-threatening diseases 3. To deliver babies 4. To conduct research about diseases/illnesses and find potential cures In developing countries such as Africa where hospitals are rare, the leading causes of deaths were Aids, Lower respiratory tract infections, Diarrhea, Malaria, and stroke, as of 2012, simply because there were not enough hospitals to treat these; therefore, we can conclude that yes, having access to hospitals is an excessive dependency because people can die without them. "My opponent states that schools require students to use computers for essays, assignments, powerpoint presentation, spreadsheet etc. You have not provided any evidence for this. There are many schools that don't require any of this." I did not say all schools. I was simply giving examples to prove my point; moreover, this is common knowledge. The opposing has also not given any evidence saying "there are many schools that don't require any of this." Also, A PBS study states that 65% of teachers in the US reported that technology allows them to demonstrate something that they cannot show in any other way, which is, without technology or computers; therefore, this shows that teachers are too dependent on them because they would not be able to "demonstrate something" without the use of any form of technology, including computers. " In my entire life as a student, I have used turnitin.com and applications like it, a total of 1 time, and I have never in my life heard of an application called "moodle." Your own personal experiences are irrelevant. Just because you have only used turnitin once and moodle zero times, one cannot conclude that all schools are like this because my opponent was only listing one school. "Since the entire point of this debate is to prove that dependency that humans have on computers is TOO much, I ask my opponent to prove how using computers as storage for information is an excessive dependency." Okay. Databases are a type of storage for information and is used in schools to store information about their students, such as grades, address, name, etc. Virtually all schools use databases, simply due to the fact that it is extremely tedious to manually write every single student's data. Databases are also similarly used by police, the government, the NSA, and hospitals. Without databases, there would be no way for records of people to be stored in an efficient manner. For example, if the government had no way of keeping records of people's income tax payments, people would misuse this and potentially lie about how much tax they owe. Therefore, storage devices are an excessive dependency. " While schools may use computers for grading certain tests, most schools do not use them to grade the majority of tests, and don't use them at all when grading exams." Really? Have you not used a scantron card before? Scantron cards are put into test scoring machines which uses a computer to scan and mark answers; they are a type of Optical Mark Recognition and this technique has been used since the 19th century. Universities all around the world rely excessively on scantron cards because they have lecture halls holding around 200 students or more. It is tedious for the professor to mark every single test by hand, so scantron cards are used to make the job easier for purely multiple choice tests such as the ones for organic chemistry and calculus ii. If scantron cards did not exist, then exams such as the ACT, LSAT, SAT, and MCAT would also not exist as their entire test is based on a scantron card. Moreover, more than 200 000 schools in the US use scantron cards. Also, according to the statistics, scantron cards are used in 98% of the top US school districts, 56 countries, 48 ministries of Education, and 94 of the top US universities. Keep in mind that scantron is just a brand and it does not also account for all of the other "bubble sheets"; therefore, I have just proven that schools excessively rely on computers, such as the one used to mark scantron cards. WORKS CITED http://www.pbs.org... http://io9.com... http://africacheck.org... http://www.bbc.co.uk...