Question ID - 83954 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.                                                                                  PASSAGE In the technological systems of tomorrow-fast, fluid and self-regulating-machines will deal with the flow of physical materials; men with the flow of information and insight, Machines will increasingly perform tasks. Machines and men both, instead of being concentrated in gigantic factories and factory cities, will be scattered across the globe, linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organization needed to control technology shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future. In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.
The technological system of tomorrow will be marked by
(a)	dehumanization.	(b)	perfection.
(c)	automation.	(d)	unpredictability.
The future man, according to this passage, must be
(a)	most adaptative and intelligent	(b)	most capable of dealing with the changing reality
(c)	more concerned with the present than the future.	(d)	trained and obedient.
Near-instantaneous communication may be regarded as a symbol of
(a)	anachronization.	(b)	mischronization.
(c)	desynchronization.	(d)	synchronization.
If a person believes that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, he is
(a)	a believer in devotion to duty.	(b)	a believer in taking things for granted.
(c)	a believer in doing what he is told, right or wrong.	(d)	a believer in the honesty of machines.
The type of society which the author has mentioned makes a plea for
(a)	a mind assimilative of modern scientific ideas.	(b)	a critical mind having insight into future.
(c)	a mind well-versed in cultural heritage.	(d)	a mind with firm principles of life.