STS LESSON 7-12
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- year 2000, Bill Joy, an American computer scientist and co-founder of Sun Mircosystems, wrote an article entitled
- “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” argued that
- Stephen Hawking warned that
- is knowledge communicated or obtained concerning a fact or circumstance
- is the period when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the management of information by computer and computer networks
- t is also called the_____ and the New Media Age starting in the last quarter of 20 th century.
- is an electronic device that stores and processes data (information.)
- single user instrument
- “workstation” has a more powerful processor, additional memory, and enhanced capabilities for performing special group of tasks
- portable computers that integrate the essentials of a desktop computer in battery-powered package
- highly integrated computers that usually have no keyboards but rely on a touch screen for user input.
- provide network services to other computers
- huge computer systems that can fill an entire room; process millions of transactions everyday
- usually integrated into cell phones, watches, and other small objects that perform common computer applications such as databases, email, and multimedia.
- an American Mathematician considered the “Father of Information Theory.”
- a worldwide system of interconnected networks that facilitate data transmission among innumerable computers
- they built search engine GOOGLE in 1998
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Facebook
- opened society to up-to-date information as fresh as while it is happening or what we call life.
- it also served as gateway forindividuals to express their feelings, share their messages, photos, videos, ideas, success, achievements, opportunities, and many others
- is also used by many people to earn money and popularity.
- happens every day in every part of the world. Too much exposure to social media may lead one to depression, stress, and other psychological problems.
- Guidelines that can help us check the reliability of web sources
- the library of congress historical digital collection Bartleby.com Great
- – a collection of free e-books including fictions, nonfictions, references, and verses.
- the first and largest single collection of free electronic books with currently over 20,000 e-books available
- a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form
- selected web resources compiled by the Library of Congress
- a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations
- is the application of information technology to store, organize, and analyze vast amounts of biological data which is available in the form of sequences and structures of proteins, and this is achieved with the help of computers.
- leaving our thinking to software and algorithms because it’s just so much more convenient and faster.
- Being not sure who performed the tasks; Not knowing if it was the intended human who replied to my emails, or her AI assistant.
- — Not having a way of knowing if the AI’s anticipation was correct or not, as we could not possibly track the system’s logic or even comprehend the workings of a quantum computing-fueled, machine-learning system.
- Being tempted to leave more tasks to systems that would handle them for us, whether it is coordinating personal schedules, making appointments, or answering simple emails.
- we love our screen more than we love people
- “mobile devices are the new cigarettes”
- Ethics are moral principles, or rules, that govern a persons attitudes and behavior. Ethics apply to the use of computers as much as they do to other things in life
- Once data is put into a computer it can easily be copied or transmitted. This puts personal private data at risk