Chapter 1 Practice Quiz

The Technological Society
. The focus on how the social, ethical, and technological come together and influence one another started to become an object of study in ________ around 1850.

. Which of the following best describes a troll farm?

. The definition of technology as ________ views technology as simply a passive object, a tool created and controlled by humans.

. ________ are defined as all objects that have been modified, modeled, or produced according to a set of humanly imposed attributes.

. The metaphor of technology as knowledge is limiting because it ________.

. ________ is the process of technological development where technological ideas are translated into design which can then be implemented.

. The strength of the technology as practice approach is that it ________.

. Martin Heidegger considered technological change carefully and divided his notion of technique into two components:

. A limitation of Franklin's perspective of technology as practice is that technology is ________.

. When technology reaches the point of being embedded in everyday life routines and practices, it is said to have been ________.

. Jürgen Habermas describes technology in terms of the realization of goals and sees technology as ________.

. Jean Baudrillard said this of technology: "It doesn't push things forward or transform the world, it becomes the world." This is a good example of the technology as ________ approach to defining technology.

. If the interrogator in a Turing Test can distinguish between machine and human, then the ________.

. When we describe disruptive technologies, what kind of change does it create in society?

. With simulation, technology is attempting to ________ the mind and/or body.

. Augmentation is best described as the ability to ________.

. The term ________ was introduced by Clynes and Kline in the 1960s to describe the ways in which long-distance space travel would require astronauts to transform their human qualities to be able to master the challenges presented in extraterrestrial environments.

. ________ believe the combination of machine and human is inevitable, and that future humans will be able to overcome the biological constraints of the human body (limited lifespan, necessity of eating, etc.) through human–machine hybridization.

. When a driverless car had a crash in 2017 and killed a pedestrian, which of the following was the case:

. The definition of technology as knowledge views technology from an action-oriented point of view.

. Examining technology as material substance has remained relevant in modern times.

. Scientific knowledge is abstract and consists of our understanding of the natural world.

. Layton's model of technology employs the metaphor of technology as knowledge, but it does not distinguish between the technology itself and the knowledge available about the technology.

. Franklin's perspective sees technology as determining how social change occurs in society and neglects to examine human agency.

. One disadvantage of Layton's model of technology is that the definition of technology goes beyond a pure consideration of artifact.

. The broadest definition of technology covered in this chapter was that of the technology as society perspective.

. Herbert Marcuse believed that the introduction of new technologies brought about new standards and cultural and social change, which were purely the effect of the new technology.

. Jürgen Habermas discusses how technological development is mostly irrational and does not facilitate strategic goals.

. A sociomaterial assemblage is stable and robust, with no risks, and produces only intended outcomes.

. Intelligent agents or chatterbots are computational systems based on algorithms that can process complex and large amounts of data.

. Transhumanists perceive PKR as a potential smart drug that boosts our cognitive capacities.

. Automation is limited to production because this is the only area in which machine learning can really make a difference.

. Research revealed that automation is neither cost-efficient nor problem-free as often assumed.

. Humans continue to be better drivers than driverless cars, their reaction times are faster and their visual perception is more accurate.

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