NMIX 2020

Of the following, which was the first method of communication that could be infinitely changed and moved around to interpret different abstract concepts?

alphabetic

SoC stands for ____________ and is ___________.

System on a Chip, essentially an entire computer on a single chip

What was humanity's first PERMANENT form of communication?

cave paintings!!!! not gestures not pictograms not text messages

A computer would count to three by counting

0,1,2

Which item is considered new media and which one is not?

AI, VR, Social Media is considered new media. Newspaper is not considered new media.

Apple was founded on _____________ and was originally called _____________.

April 1, 1976 Apple Computer Inc

Why is speech better than gestures?

Because it allows us to communicate without being face-to-face

What is a non-digital media currently referred to as?

Legacy Media

What problems were solved when papyrus was invented?

Lightweight and portable, and quick to mark on

Which innovation allowed words and concepts to be recreated in an infinite number of variations?

alphabet

Logographic writing evolved from : pictograms and ideograms

both

According to Steve Jobs, "[Design is] not just what [something] looks like and feels like, [it's]"

how it works

IP is

internet protocol, a set communication protocols that define how data should travel across computer networks

All of the following are reasons someone launching a website might want to use a commercial web server instead of their own machine except that a commercial web server:

is always always free to operate

What type of writing preceded alphabetic writing?

logographic

New media is the ____ or ______ of general communication

means; channels

Which is not an advantage of papyrus over stone?? Papyrus is

more permanent 1. lighter weight 2. higher information density 3. faster data entry

What was the first form of mass communication

newspaper

What innovation was brought by cave paints/petroglyphs?

permanence

The printing press offered multiple-orders-of-magnitude improvements in printing all of the following except: speed, quality of content, cost, and accuracy of copies.

quality of content

The study of signs is called

semiotics

Which of the following is a wireless network protocol?

LTE BLUETOOTH Wifi NOT Ethernet

Which of these people were the founding group of Apple's creators?

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne

What did kevin kelly say about technological changes in the future?

The technological changes made in the next 20 years will dwarf the changes in the previous 20 years

______ invented the _____ in ______

Tim Berners-Lee, World-Wide-Web, 1989

When did the term "new media" take off and what caused it to?

1985- 1990s; digital media

Which are the three driving rules of hardware innovation?

1. Devices become more smaller and smaller over time 2. Devices become mechanically simpler over time, containing fewer moving parts. 3. Computing performance and/or efficiency doubles every 18-24 months.

What is true about many new communication technologies?

1. They are weak in many areas when first introduced. 2. They are compelling in one new area.

Which of the following is true of the original Macintosh

1. Was one of the first products to be promoted by an expensive Super Bowl commercial 2. Was the first mass-market computer to be mouse-based 3. Was the first mass-market computer to use a GUI

What are the major benefits of computers?

1. ability to perfectly reproduce 2. cost of reproducing and transmitting info over a CPU network became close to zero 3. The ability to store and process info at a scale and speed beyond human ability

What are the real-time only?

1.Gestures 2. Speech 3. Pointing

How many bits are in 24 megabytes?

192,000,000

What is a medium?

An intervening agency, means, or instrument which something is conveyed

Which of the following are current smartphone operating systems?

Android iOS

What does Bit stand for? How many bits in 1 byte

Binary Digit and 8 bits in 1 byte

What's the timeline of the early forms of communication writing?

Caves paintings --> pictograms --> ideogram --> logographic --> alphabetic

Compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drivers do not

Cost less per gigabyte of storage than HDDs.

Where is Apple inc headquartered?

Cuptertino, CA

The typewriter represents what common pattern of new technologies?

Decrease in size, complexity, and cost

DNS stands for ________ and is ________

Domain name system, an address book for websites

What are the key differences between ideograms and pictograms

Ideograms (characters) represent abstract ideas. Pictogram shows a sequence or chronology (pictures repping symbols)

Why do we think new media is "emerging"?

Emerging refers to the present which allows us to talk about media today

Which online tool can you use to view the time period where terms originated and their use in popular culture?

Google Ngram

GPU stands for _____ and is responsible for ________ with a computer

Graphics Processing Unit and graphics (3D graphics)

Who was depicted in Apple's original logo?

Isaac Newton

Which of the following is not a reason why speech might have become the default mode of human communication instead of sign languages such as ASL?

It requires less physical effort

All of the following are true about Xerox PARC except that

NOT located in new york 1. Ethernet was invented there 2. PARC stands for Palo Alto Research Center 3. Many ideas now common in personal computing originated there

Apple acquired ______ in _______, bringing Steve Jobs back to the company he founded, along with technology that would become to core of Apple's operating systems.

NeXT , 1997

What innovation was brought about by cave paintings, petroglyphs?

Permanence

In the year it was created, the Web's inventor spoke of three pillars on which the Web stands.

URL, an address system that keeps track of web documents HTTP, a transport protocol to find documents given their URLs HTML, a document format allowing for embedded hyperlinks.

All communication requires

a medium

Why were the introduction of signs such a big deal?

abstraction, they are able to refer to things that arent' there

CPU stands for ___ and is the ____ of a computer

central processing unit, the brain

According to "What is code?", a computer is a " _____ with benefits."

clock

Which of the following was not a radical new feature of the OG iphone at the time of its introduction?

copy and paste for text

Verbal language is a permanent form of communication

false

Since its inception, Apple has prided itself on making the "whole widget," integrating:

hardware and software