awr quiz
true or false is technopoly a state of culture rather than mind?
False
Can an IQ test measure emotion, creativity, or social abilities ?
No
in the history of medicine were surgeons considered physicians?
No (human plumbers)
wealth of nations was published in
1776
The dialogue used by Thamus is
?
who is the father of computers
Charles Babbage
who did NOT invent the telescope
Galileo
who wrote the language of nature in math?
Galileo
3 men that shocked the church through science was
Galileo, Keplers, Copernicus
who said the medium is the message?
Marshall McLuhan
fragmentism was invited by charles pierce but was stolen by
William James (ecocentric language)
Is medical technology controlled by economic constraints?
Yes
can a culture control a society?
Yes (money, religion, technology)
3 products that represent our society are
cell phone, food, cars
a school system is a bureaucracy due to the
curriculum (controlled pieces of info)
new technologies create what in society ?
elite groups that are granted undeserved authority cause of their knowledge
in a democratic society the system is weak therefore
everyone is enthusiastic to technological change
technopolis believe that technological progress is
everything
AI people believe that in the future it will
gain consciousness
Writing as a technology
is NOT neutral it is effected by concepts of power and cultural images
when new technology comes into society...
it changes everything (printing press, gave ppl a way to read for cheap)
the invisible technology that puts the world into object and subject is
language
Technopoly does NOT equal..
moral guidance
technopolis believe that the world needs
more information (info is power)
new technologies generate what ?
new knowledge monopolies
religious traditions serve as a
regulation of information
bureaucracy in principle is a
social institution
culture is classified into what 3 types..
technocracy, technopoly, tool-using
the designer of a tool puts a..
technological biased in it
Technical progress is a supreme achievement to a
technopolis
in the story "Amusing Ourselves to Death" the technology that affects school teachers is
the television
social science is a
weak or strong ally of technopoly?
the first book written about technopoly was
wealth of nations
first system of information control that a human faces is
your family
with new discoveries the question to ask is..
"what do we lose"
the beginning of technocracy was
1776
founding father of communication
?