Chapter 2 Practice Quiz

Technology in Society: A Historical Overview
. Scholars of the history of technology describe the history of tool use as following an evolutionary model because __________.

. The key issue(s) that makes understanding the history of technology difficult is that __________.

. Amazon's primary reason for using a robot workforce to move products from one location to another in the warehouse is:

. Early tool use was most often limited to __________.

. In the Neolithic Revolution, settlements were established around ___________.

. The study of perspective effects had an impact on ___________ first in Greece and then in Rome.

. Scientific inquiry with the goal of developing knowledge about the world, rather than for any specific application, is called ___________.

. __________ is credited with inventing the first printing press.

. Movable type was used in __________ 500 years prior to its invention in Western Europe.

. Diderot's Encyclopédie was intended to be a universal dictionary of _____________.

. Amazon's predictive analytics is based on data. What type of data does the model use?

. Motivations for machine breaking during the Industrial Revolution included _____________.

. ______________ was among the first to draw attention to the effects electronic media had on society, talking about how these tools shaped our thinking processes as well as our understanding of the world.

. Which of the following is an example of a low-definition medium in accord to McLuhan?

. Horticultural societies have many characteristics, but which one defines them __________.

. McLuhan used provocative, bold aphorisms that he termed ________ to challenge us to think more deeply about the link between messages, media and audiences.

. McLuhan initially introduced the notion of the global village to describe the social connections created by __________.

. Based on a study by Bennett et al. (2018) regarding the engagement of teens with visual impairments, which of the following statements is True.

. Technology makes it possible for people to subsist in megacities.

. In history, inventors often worked in isolation from one another, and the result was that many novel inventions were pure creations of theory, ingenuity, and fancy.

. Material culture is often made up of elements encountered in nature, such as leaves, trees, or caves.

. The earliest evidence of technology can be traced back to the use of tools several thousand years before the Stone Age began.

. Though there is the assumption that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was deprived, lonely, and brutish, Late Stone Age societies had a rich social and spiritual life.

. The green revolution denotes an exponential increase in innovation and transfer of technology in the realm of agricultural.

. The wide adoption of the printing press led to an era in which oral culture gave way to print culture.

. Drone swarms, a type of war technology that can engage in an autonomous attack, is a development of the future.

. The Industrial Revolution resulted in lower wages and unemployment for many highly skilled craftspeople.

. McLuhan believed that the content was more important than the medium by which it is disseminated.

. Well-defined information that requires little effort to be processed is referred to as low-definition media.

. Virtue describes the ethical use of big data.

. Big data analytics projects have only positive effects, helping develop a better society .

. Today's material cycle of development continues to grow and it is predicted that it will continue to grow further in the future.

. Programs like OFFSET (OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics) are meant to spur innovation in a targeted area through the injection of capital, human, and institutional resources on a large scale.

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