Chapter 11 and 12

Many rapid changes in technology over the past few decades were facilitated by:

All of the above

Intellectual property refers to:

All of these answers are correct.

We are currently in which phase in the development of technology?

Biotechnology

One type of digital currency that operates outside the banking system using encrypted technology is:

Bitcoin

MIT researchers determined that 90 percent of shoppers' credit-card transactions could be used to:

Both to uniquely identify an individual's shopping habits and preferences and to identify an individual shopper using only four bits of secondary information.

The digital divide describes the gap between those:

Individuals who have technology and those who do not.

The phase of technology that focuses on building material goods and manual labor is:

Industrial

The information phase of technology primarily requires:

Intellectual and electronic skills.

One argument in favor of net neutrality is:

To fairly compete, small, medium, and large firms should have the same Internet bandwidth.