How is information technology connected with globalisation? Would globalisation have been possible without expansion of IT?

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Information technology plays a major role in globalization. Internet, computer and mobile play an important role in modern information technology. Through the internet, we can know information from any corner of the world and can get it with the help of computers and printers. Knowledge of international ups and downs has become possible only through information technology. It is impossible to know about social upheavals, cultural exchange, political upheaval, economic upheaval, mobility of labor and capital etc. without information technology.

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Choose the most appropriate option. (i) The past two decades of globalisation has seen rapid movements in

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