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Option 1 : balanced, recognising both gains and risks

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सही उत्तर balanced, recognising both gains and risks है।

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Question:

The author's attitude towards technology in the passage given earlier is best described as

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balanced, recognising both gains and risks
2.
wholly hostile to digital devices
3.
uncritically celebratory of the internet
4.
indifferent and detached

Correct Answer: balanced, recognising both gains and risks

The author acknowledges benefits — expanded transactive memory, the shift to navigation skills — alongside dangers such as the illusion of competence. This even-handed treatment makes (a) correct; (b) and (c) are one-sided, and (d) is contradicted by the engaged, cautionary tone.

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