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

?