A smart city integrates all modes of transport, uses clean energy and promotes the sustainable use of resources. It also uses technology to ensure the safety and security of the city, something which critics argue, will lead to a surveillance state. Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above paragraph (i) All smart cities encourage the formation of surveillance states. (ii) Surveillance is an integral part of a smart city. (iii) Sustainability and surveillance go hand in hand in a smart city. (iv) There is a perception that smart cities promote surveillance.?

(i) and (iv) only
(ii) and (iii) only
(iv) only
(i) only

LohaHridoy

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2025-01-04 04:42

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AhmedNazir

Option 3 : (iv) only

Let us examine the inferences one by one:

Smart cities use technology to ensure safety and security but that does not mean they promote surveillance. Thus this does not follow.
There is no information in the passage that helps us infer whether surveillance is an integral part of the smart city. Thus this cannot be inferred.
Though sustainability has been considered as an important part of the smart city, surveillance is only promoted by the technology used indirectly. Thus this cannot be inferred.
The critics sometimes perceive the use of technology in smart cities as a way to surveillance. Thus this is a logical inference.

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