Try to avoid using modal verbs, whenever possible. They often make your argument weaker (and confusing). You wrote:
“There has been debate on whether or not technology can complicate our lives.”
Better is this:
“There has been debate on whether or not technology complicates our lives.”
In the first sentence, your meaning is: there has been debate on whether it is possible that computers complicate our lives. It is definitely true that technology “can complicate our lives,” but the question is this: “does it complicate our lives?”
Modals are tricky. Sorry.
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