Question 9
Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries 2 marks
Development in electronic science ha transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age.
Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive memory of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forget events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments where thus the order of the day.
Even writing, which replaced mental reading was not entirely free from those shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome.
Recordings on audio or video cassettes now only show not only what happened, but who did or said what including how and when.
Development in electronic science ha transformed the art of record keeping in the modern age.
Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's minds. It depended very much on the retentive memory of the human memory.
This was extremely dangerous as people either forget events wholly or in part, or deliberately falsified details to suit their various interests. Interminable arguments where thus the order of the day.
Even writing, which replaced mental reading was not entirely free from those shortcomings as untruths could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however these dangers have been largely overcome.
Recordings on audio or video cassettes now only show not only what happened, but who did or said what including how and when.
According to the author the human mind is unreliable because people
Objective