Chapter 01: Using Technology to Change the World

Modern motivation theory says people work hardest when offered the highest pay.

False

Augmented Reality

A combination of our normal sense of the objects around us with an overlay of information displayed.

The Khan Academy is

A free technology tool used for education.

Social Networking

A means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information among their immediate friends and to meet and connect with others through common interests, experiences, and friends.

Crisis-Mapping Tool

A tool that collects information from e-mails, text messages, blog posts, and Twitter tweets and maps them, making the information instantly publicly available.

Affective Computing

A type of computing that relates to emotion or that deliberately tries to influence emotion.

QR codes can be linked to

A video, website, and a Facebook page

Computer Forensics

Analyzes computer systems to gather potential legal advice.

Crowdfunding

Asking for small donations from a large number of people, often using the Internet; a style of generating capital to start a business through social media.

Computer Literate

Being familiar enough with computers that a user knows how to use them and understands their capabilities and limitations.

Being computer literate means you know how to solve any computer problem.

False

Digestible microchips

Have embedded sensors to transmit information to physicians.

Social Networking

Is incorporated as part of political strategy by many politicians.

Collaborative Consumption

Joining together as a group to use a specific product more efficiently.

Examples of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing include

Kickstarter and MobileVoice

Web 2.0 has led to a shift from just consuming content toward

Producing content

Quick Response Codes

Technology that lets any piece of print in the real world host a live link to online information and video content.

Computer Forensics

The application of computer systems and techniques to gather potential legal evidence; a law enforcement specialty used to fight high-tech crime.

Cognitive Surplus

The combination of leisure time and the tools needed to be creative.

Digital Divide

The discrepancy between those who have access to the opportunities and knowledge that computers and the Internet offer and those who do not.

Simulation software that can be used in education includes

The interactive body

Crowdsourcing

The phenomenon of consumers checking in with the voice of the crowd before making purchase.

Data Mining

The process by which great amounts of data are analyzed and investigated. The objective is to spot significant patterns or trends within the data that would otherwise not be obvious.

Software

The set of computer programs or instructions that tells the computer what to do and that enables it to perform different tasks.

Information Technology

The set of techniques used in processing and retrieving information.

Web 2.0

Tools and web-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

Being computer literate is an advantage in almost every type of career.

True

The Virtual Choir showed that people have the means to collaborate easily internationally.

True

Spam

Unwanted or junk e-mail.

Which of the following is true about crisis-mapping software?

Ushahidi was created in a few days and distributed globally for free.