Q19

[LSAT-Chang]

Had a quick question about this one. I correctly picked (B), but wasn't able to eliminate (C). Although not explictly stated in the passage, I thought (C) was inferrable since lines 41-49 sort of summarize this idea that technology is available anywhere regardless of national boundaries. Am I making something up?

[lsociology]

Quick answer, the article has nothing to do with spreading technology, only dealing with how technology can make differences, benifiting people of different groups, etc.

The consequence of the invention of easliy accessible technology is one thing; how technology is spreading is another.

[LolaC289]

I think (C) is pretty attractive. After reading the whole text I do have a feeling of the unstoppable development of technology.

But the scope mentioned in (C) is too specific and is never supported in our passage. The whole "widespread of technology" was discussed in paragraph 2, which the author did say "greatly extended the power of distant communication" (line 48).

However, it is paragraph 3 that began to talk about "this kind of diffusion across society", suggesting the scope of how widespread technology was. While it's not clear if the author think technology actually spread beyond national boundaries, the fact that he merely claims "across society"(instead of "across societies", l.49-50, 59-60) seems like if anything, he was limiting the scope within a society(or a country). So (C) is not the most inferrable.

(B) is directly supported by l.1-9