Exam 9: Emerging Trends and Technologies: Business, People, and Technology Tomorrow

The great _____ refers to the fact that the world is being marked by "have's" and "have not's" with respect to technology.

A drawback of the ASR system is that it cannot distinguish word groupings to form sentences.

Which of the following focuses on semantics i.e. ,the ability of Internet technologies to interpret and understand human-generated content?

Which of the following is a delivery model that enables a person to rent productivity software such as Microsoft Office?

Multi-state CPUs are binary state,capable of working with information represented by a 1 or a 0.

The most common applications of virtual reality are found in the _____ industry.

Which of the following is true of Web 2.0?

_____ is the use of physiological characteristics-such as your fingerprint,the blood vessels in the iris of your eye,the sound of your voice,and even your breath-to provide identification.

Contrary to popular opinion,Web 2.0 is actually the third generation of the Web.

A cave automatic virtual environment is an example of a physiological innovation.

Melissa and her friend,Erica,go on a hike to get away from the hustle bustle of city life.During the hike,Melissa takes several photographs with her cell phone camera and she uses a certain technology to transfer them to Erica.However,when she tries sending them to her friends who lives in the next city,she is unable to transfer the photographs.Which of the following technologies is Melissa using?

A biochip provides identification by evaluating facial characteristics.

A passive RFID chip has no power source itself and sits idle until passed near a reader that emits radio waves.

A holographic storage device is a device which stores information on a storage medium composed of 3-D crystal like objects.

A CAVE is an e-commerce business model in which a consumer communicates directly through the Internet with a factory for customized products.

With RFID technologies,each individual piece of merchandise will have a unique ____.

A person searching for information on car rental services online is an example of push technology.

Some in-car GPS navigation systems are voice activated.All that a driver has to do is state the name of one's destination or dictate an address and the system automatically instructs the driver on how to get there.Which of the following physiological innovations do such GPS systems utilize?

F2b2C is an e-commerce model where a customer can specify a custom order directly to a factory.

Lesley who recently traveled to Paris was anxious prior to her visit because it was her first trip to the city.However,while she was in the city,she used a certain technology which helped her find places at the click of a button.Whenever she was outdoors,she would click a photo of the street on her palmtop and a list of museums,parks,and eateries would automatically appear on the screen.With the help of this technology,she could easily make her way through the city.Which of the following technologies did Lesley's palmtop utilize?