Exam 12: Technology, Organizations, and Society

The use of publicly accessed servers to store users' text photos, videos and other data at remote sites, rather than on their own computers is called:

Nations have tended to move sequentially through each phase of technology, beginning with the lowest technology and moving higher with each step.

Businesses generally discovered that the adoption of technology was a money-saver rather than an expense in the short run.

A hacking technique that redirects a user's computer from a legitimate Web site to another site by altering the user's computer or router is called:

By 2008, the ratio of computers to students in the United States was:

The buying and selling of goods and services electronically is called:

A group of people who leap to the most dreadful conclusions while researching health matters online are called:

Technology is an unmistakable ethical force, but not an economic or social force, in the world where we live.

In 2009, the global ratio of spam in e-mail traffic was 1 in every 1.32 e-mails.

A program designed to build, and market ultralightweight, durable netbook computers for children aged 6 through 12 throughout the world is called:

According to Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems' chief scientist, by 2030, we are likely to build machines a million times as powerful as the personal computer of today.

In the nomadic-agrarian phase of technology in society, people:

Define technology and describe its three primary features.

Future shock means change will happen too fast and shock itself to death.

Anti-spam legislation was passed by which country making it a crime to send unsolicited e-mail messages to people's private e-mail addresses or cell phones?

High-technology businesses, governments, and community groups acting together appear to be winning the battle of making technology more accessible to all people regardless of their race, income, education, age, or residence.

Discuss what factors have fueled technological growth and development.

The current phase of technology is the service society.

Since surfing the Internet for medical information is widespread, how can the quality of information provided online be verified as accurate or reliable?

The place where information is stored, ideas are described, and communication takes place in and through an electronic network of linked systems is called: