Para Summary Quiz Question - 4

 For millennia, remembering information was costly and time-consuming, and to forget was a natural part of being human. In the digital age, the opposite is true: cheap computer storage, powerful processors, and ubiquitous Internet access have made remembering the norm. Consider this: we tend to retain our rough drafts, years of e-mail traffic, and thousands of ghastly digital snapshots on our hard drives, not because we have decided that they are worth remembering, but because keeping them is now the default way of doing things. By contrast, deciding what to delete is costly. It actually requires much more time and effort to shed data than to keep it.

(a)  Since the digital age has made retaining information cheap and effortless, we have left behind our natural habit of forgetting.

(b)   Since the digital age has made storage of data cheap and easy, we now store large amounts of information even it is worthless.

(c)  Remembering is no more costly and time consuming in the digital age; hence, we store large amounts of worthless information.

(d)  The digital age has made it possible to retain large amounts of data cheaply and easily; hence we remember more unlike in the past.

(e)  As deciding what to delete is costly and time consuming we now tend to store everything from rough drafts to ghastly images.

Answer & Explaination

Ans.(b)

Sol. The highlight of the paragraph is that the facilities available in the digital age have facilitated storage of data on a large scale. Earlier retaining information was difficult; now deleting is more time-consuming and costly; hence we save almost everything. Option (B), among the options, captures this best. Option (B) is eliminated because it states “natural habit of forgetting” – remembering and forgetting are used more figuratively than literally. Option (C) states “worthless information.” Option (D) is similar to option (B). Option (E) misses the digital age.

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