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Question 21 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2020 Medium NAT +3.00 marks

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer: 1. You can observe the truth of this in every e-business model ever constructed: monopolise and protect data. 2. Economists and technologists believe that a new kind of capitalism is being created - different from industrial capitalism as was merchant capitalism. 3. In 1962, Kenneth Arrow, the guru of mainstream economics, said that in a free-market economy the purpose of inventing things is to create intellectual property rights. 4. There is, alongside the world of monopolised information and surveillance, a different dynamic growing up: information as a social good, incapable of being owned or exploited or priced. 5. Yet information is abundant. Information goods are freely replicable. Once a thing is made, it can be copied and pasted infinitely.

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