HW 10

HW 10 due Friday, Apr. 8, 2022       Information, Computing and the Future

Directions: The title of your blog post should indicate "HW 10"  (if your blog is not working then you will need to email this HW to the instructor).  Number your answers according to the question numbers below. 


1. Follow the process provided in the lecture notes and reviewed in class, but for a different technology. Suggestion: the technology of your project (or a technology related to your project, if your project is not already a technology). Give your results for each step.

2. Continue to work on your project. You can incorporate things you found in question 1, but you don't have to. Explain what you did.

3. Grad students only: continue with the book you obtained. Read the next 20 pages. State the book title, author, and page numbers you have read. Discuss the pages, explaining what you agree with, disagree with, how your views compare with those of other reviewers on Amazon or elsewhere, etc.

Do not do the below. (It will be assigned in a future year when the department is preparing for its every-six-years accreditation process, in order to measure student performance in identifying technology's impacts, as requested by the accreditation board.)
 
Directions: This course is being used as part of the department's accreditation renewal effort. We would like students to be able to think about technology's impacts. Please answer these questions thoughtfully, but concisely (that is, briefly). Thanks!


Your name:___________________

1. For the technological topic of your choice, say what it is, give a present-day impact on individuals, and your opinion about whether it is good, bad, or whatever you think.



2. For the technological topic of 1 above, give five more present-day impacts on individuals. One of the five should relate to your career path. For each, give a good reason why the impact exists.

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3. For each of the 6 impacts of questions 1 and 2, extend to past impacts and one possible future impact. Conciseness is acceptable...no need to write a book about this.

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4. For each of the 6 impacts, give a second alternative possible future impact on individuals.

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5. For the technological topic of your choice, give a present-day impact on an organization, such as business, government or others, and your opinion.

6. Give 5 more present-day impacts on organizations. Of these 5 and the 1 you just discussed above, at least one impact should relate to business, one to government, and one to some other type of organization. For each of the 5, give at least one good reason.
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7. For each of the 6 impacts of questions 5 and 6, extend to past impacts and one possible future impact. Conciseness is acceptable...no need to write a book about this.

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8. For each of the 6 impacts, give a second alternative possible future impact on organizations.

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9. For the technological topic of your choice, give a present-day impact on society, and your opinion.


10. Give 5 more present-day impacts on society. For each of the 5, give at least one good reason.
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11. For each of the 6 impacts of questions 9 and 10, extend to past impacts and one possible future impact on society. Conciseness is acceptable...no need to write a book about this.

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12. For each of the 6 impacts, give a second alternative possible future impact on society.

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