Abstract: The widespread application of big data technology not only affects the natural world, but also profoundly affects human life, especially the quality of human thinking. Thinking quality can be summed up in four aspects: flexibility, creativity, profundity and criticality. It is an important manifestation of thinking ability. The application of big data has a significant impact on the quality of human thinking, leading to the transformation of thinking flexibility from openness to closure, thinking creativity from value rationality to tool rationality, thinking profundity from causality to relevance, and thinking criticism from autonomy to compliance. From the perspective of big data technology application, this paper explored the root causes of the alienation of human thinking and intended to seek a possible way out for human thinking to be inclusive.

Key Words: Big data technology; Thinking quality; Intelligent era; Intelligent technology