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Question 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2024 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

The history of any major technological or industrial advance is inevitably shadowed by a less predictable history of unintended consequences and secondary effects — what economists sometimes call “externalities.” Sometimes those consequences are innocuous ones, or even…

The author lists all of the following examples as “externalities” of major technical advances EXCEPT:

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