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New technologies often meet resistance before they become indispensable. When personal computers first appeared, many businesses dismissed them as toys unsuited to serious work. Those same businesses now could not operate without them. We should therefore be wary of dismissing today's emerging tools as mere novelties.
The statement that many businesses first dismissed personal computers as toys unsuited to serious work functions in which one of the following ways?
- It is the main conclusion of the argument.
- It is a counterexample the argument must explain away.
- It is an illustrative example offered in support of the argument's general claim.
- It is the general principle that the argument is chiefly defending.
- It is a counterexample showing that some emerging technologies never become indispensable.
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