Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:
"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free."
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What is Screen Addiction?
Tech or screen addiction is a broad term devised to define obsession with online video games, Smartphones, tablets, online gambling, online shopping, etc. It is indisputable that information technology has changed our lives for the better in myriad ways. We are better connected, well informed, more aware and can easily do much, much more - all at the click of a button.
Footage of unrest in a foreign land can be conveyed to the world in a matter of minutes and you can plan your trip to your favourite destination sitting in the comfort of your homes. We can converse/Skype with our Naani in the "gaon" with the same ease as shopping online for virtually any thing from anywhere.
We can research any topic from manure for our garden to the components of rocket fuel. We can find our childhood friends on social media or look at Alpha Centauri with ease. Smartphones and tablets function as a personal diary, daily planner, calculator, email dispatcher, camera and music player ; and are compact, easy-to-carry devices.
But, all this come with a price - excessive use of this technology can easily become a dependence, and is also addictive.
As with all other forms of addiction such as alcohol, drugs, and junk food, tech addiction is also characterized by a need to attain, a "high" which is temporary. This is followed by a "low" when the addict seeks to reach the exciting "high" again by all means. Children, teenagers and young adults, who are termed "Digital Natives" - individuals who have been exposed to online entertainment form birth or a young age - are at a greater risk of being hooked.
Tech addicts even have an abbreviation for real life: IRL - in real life. Being IRL is something they begin to shun after a while.
(Are you a tech addict ? - By Ujjwala Karmakar, Science Reporter, August 2014)
Getting footage of unrest in a foreign land in minutes shows that we are :
(A) well connected
(B) concerned about global issues
(C) happy because the problem is not with us
(D) too selfish to bother about others
(E) worried about safety and security issues
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (E) are correct
(A) well connected — Correct.
- The passage gives footage of unrest reaching the world in a matter of minutes as an example of how we are better connected.
(B) concerned about global issues — Correct.
- The passage says we are well informed and more aware.
- Following unrest in a foreign land shows interest in what happens across the world.
(C) happy because the problem is not with us — Incorrect.
- Not mentioned: nothing in the passage suggests that people enjoy the troubles of others.
(D) too selfish to bother about others — Incorrect.
- Contradicted: watching news of a foreign land shows that we do bother about others.
(E) worried about safety and security issues — Correct.
- Unrest means violence and disorder.
- Seeking such footage reflects concern for safety and security.