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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Technology

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on technology. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task A · ArgumentPrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on technology.

  • We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

    Anonymous

  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

    Anonymous

  • The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

    B. F. Skinner

Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.

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