STS EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE

Historical evidence suggests that we have complete mastery of our tools

false

The surviving spouse is immediately overjoyed to encounter her " husband", even in digital form

false

who is responsible for initially involving the surviving spouse with the digital version of "husband"

her friend, Sarah

What is the notion that society can be viewed as a vast, well-integrated machine

megatechnics

· Upon its "discovery" ( or shortly therafter), America was understood - at least philosophically - by Europeans as

o A new Eden, untouched by problems of vastly expanding urban life o A "clean state" for civilization, which had seen so much turmoil and violence

· The final consequence of contemporary notions of comfort and convenience, especially pertaining to the body, is

o A perpetual state of dissatisfaction

· According to Langdon Winner, the "lesson" of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is that we

o CANNOT disown the things we create

· Overcoming the limits of the body____

o Contemporary value

What process is "ordinary" and "connects the elements of everyday life, whethere symbolic, structural, material, or effective"?

o Culture

Especially in the progress of change, values in culture may be characterized at a given time as

o Emergent o Residual o Dominant

· What are the two essential components of the "progress story"

o Evolution o Sublime

· No matter how "progress" is defined, it is ultimately inevitable

o False

· The naming of the various "ages" of human development - Stone Age, Iron Age, Industrial Age, etc—suggest that

o Formal education is short sighted in narrowing down human development to the dominant technology of the time

· Meeting the demands of the body

o Greek value

· The received view of culture and technology articulates

o How culture is organized to promote particular values, feelings, beliefs, affects, and practices involving technology at the expense of others o Why you do what you in relationship with technology o Why you believe what you do about technology

· The two primary forms of the desire to overcome limits are

o Limits of time o Limits of space

· "the good life" is broadly characterized by

o Material and moral betterment

· Assumptions linking technological development to "the good life"—like all assumptions - are powerful and dangerous because assumptions re not explicitly expressed and therefore often go unchallenged

o Powerful and dangerous o Assumptions are not explicitly expressed and therefore often go unchallenged

· Contemporary notions of convenience have lead to a switch from thinking of technology in terms of progress talk to change talk

o Progress talk o Change talk

· How has the "progress story" been used (at least in the United States)?

o To control population o To promote a version of "a better life" o To judge others o To sell things

· The received view of culture and technology is ultimately a story, a story that can be told differently

o True

· _____ become needs by way of becoming _____ necessities

o Wants o Needs o Cultural

The philosopher G.W.F Hegel articulates

the "Master-Slave" dynamic

Technology autonomy and dependence set up the dilemma known as

the Master-Slave dynamic

what is the term for Jeremy Betham's conception of a new prison model

the panopticon

how do we tend to exert technological control

-control of society -control of nature and the environment

In the end, the surviving spouse keeps her "husband" ______ only allowing _____ to "visit" occasionally

-in the attic -her daughter

What, at least, does surviving spouse ask her "husband" to do as a test of his "humanity"

-jump off a cliff -hit her

What are the names of the protagonist ( the couple) in be right back

Ash and Martha

· What is the term for attempted scientific management of the organization and division of labor

Taylorism

· Culture is shaped by the work of

Tradition

What contemporary technology technology does the text compare to the fictional Mechanical Hound of Fahrenheit 451

UAV's (drones)