Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answers to this item should be based on the passage only. We live in digital times. The digital is not just something we use strategically and specifically to do a few tasks. Our very perception of who we are, how we connect to the world around us, and the ways in which we define our domains of life, labour and language are hugely structured by the digital technologies. The digital is everywhere and, like air, invisible. We live within digital systems, we live with intimate gadgets, we interact through digital media, and the very presence and imagination of the digital has dramatically restructured our lives. The digital, far from being a tool, is a condition and context that defines the shapes and boundaries of our understanding of the self, the society, and the structure of governance. Which among the following is the most logical and essential message conveyed by the above passage? Correct Answer Speaking of digital technologies is speaking of our life and living. The correct answer is Speaking of digital technologies is speaking of our life and living. Key Points The whole passage revolves around the idea of how digital technologies are drastically influencing human lives. From the initial lines of the passage, we can infer that digital technology's web is encompassing our daily activities, domains of lives, labor, language, etc., through the gadgets that we use very frequently in our lives. One or the other aspect of our lives is somehow connected to digital technologies and changing our lives' activities as we are getting dependent on them. Now "the digital" is not a tool only which used to ease our daily activities; it has now become a condition in which we live. Digital technologies have changed our thinking, decisions that in turn influence and define our relationship with society, understanding of the self, the way we look at, understand, and communicate with the world, the structure of the government, etc. From the above lines, we can conclude that - Speaking of digital technologies is speaking of our life and living. ​​Hence, option 2 is the correct choice.