Science, Technology, and Society Test
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Course Introduction
This course explores the complex relationships between science, technology, and society, examining how scientific discoveries and technological advancements shape, and are shaped by, social, cultural, political, and economic forces. Through historical case studies, contemporary examples, and theoretical perspectives, students will analyze the ways in which science and technology impact daily life, influence public policy, raise ethical questions, and contribute to social change. The course encourages critical thinking about the benefits, risks, and unintended consequences of innovations while fostering an understanding of the role that diverse social actors play in the development and regulation of scientific and technological knowledge.
Recommended Textbook Society Ethics and Technology 5th Edition by Morton Winston
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Chapter 1: History
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Q1) What did congestion bring in its wake?
A) Health
B) Disease
C) Automobiles
D) The powergrid
Answer: B
Q2) What is the largest corporation in the world at the start of the twenty-first century?
A) Ford
B) Wal-Mart
C) General Electric
D) Nokia
Answer: B
Q3) What was the dominant form of lighting by 1920?
A) Gas
B) Kerosene
C) Electricity
D) Oil
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Society
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Q1) What is a "brown good"?
A) One that is ethically suspect
B) One that is marketed to single men
C) One that is for leisure and entertainment
D) One that is designed to fail
Answer: C
Q2) Who held that technological innovations establish a framework for public order?
A) Paul Loser
B) Langdon Winner
C) Bill Gates
D) Alfred Nobel
Answer: B
Q3) What technology did the village of Ibieca find came at the expense of community integration?
A) The telephone
B) Indoor plumbing
C) The Internet
D) The telegraph
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Ethics
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Q1) Design functions,like mathematical functions,are not:
A) One-to-many relations
B) Accessible relations
C) Intentional relations
D) Artifacts
Answer: A
Q2) What does Jonas claim has become a prime duty?
A) Virtue
B) Goodness
C) Maximizing happiness
D) Knowledge
Answer: D
Q3) What have received the most attention as the best candidates for non-human moral agency?
A) Computers
B) Apes
C) Dolphins
D) Trees
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Security Surveillance
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Q1) Stanley and Steinhardt accuse the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of hindering what type of privacy for Americans?
A) At home
B) Workplace
C) Genetic
D) Financial
Q2) To which industrial age does Max Boot date the basic structures of the American Navy and Air Force?
A) First Industrial Age
B) Second Industrial Age
C) Third Industrial Age
D) Fourth Industrial Age
Q3) Who refers to the increasing prevalence of spy satellites,wiretapping and tracking technology as a "revolution in surveillance technology"?
A) James Stacey Taylor
B) Noel Sharkey
C) Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt
D) Thomas M. Powers
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Chapter 5: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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Q1) Which fields will probably raise more urgent and entangled ethical issues in robotics?
A) Cryogenics and Thermogenics
B) Biorobotics and robotics political applications
C) The SkyNet and Matrix projects
D) Biorobotics and robotics military applications
Q2) Who coined the Three Laws of Robotics?
A) John Conner
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Fiorella Operto
D) Abbe Mowshowitz
Q3) Which chess champion did Deep Blue defeat?
A) Garry Kasparov
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Bobby Fisher
D) Gibson Praise
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Chapter 6: Nanotechnology
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Q1) Who has designed robotic replacements for human blood cells that perform thousands of times more effectively than their biological counterparts?
A) Eric Drexler
B) Robert Freitas
C) Gordon Moore
D) Bill Joy
Q2) What does "GNR" stand for?
A) Genetic nanotechnological respiration
B) Genetics, nanoscience, and robotics
C) Globular nano-respirocytes
D) Genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics
Q3) What areas has Bill McKibben,one of the first environmentalists to warn against the dangers of global warming,specifically suggested relinquishing,according to Kurzweil?
A) Biotechnology and motor vehicles
B) Warp technology and nanotechnology
C) Biotechnology and nanotechnology
D) Biotechnology and biochemistry
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Chapter 7: Inernet & Social Media
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Q1) Upon release of the iPhone here in 2009,Apple had to agree to what country's rules on censorship to be allowed to enter the market?
A) China
B) India
C) North Korea
D) Russia
Q2) What is the notion that science and technology have a symbiotic relationship,each one helping the other,while social values shape the precise forms that technological artifacts take?
A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology
Q3) Who believes net neutrality is a prerequisite for Internet freedom and ultimately as important as the First Amendment,according to Mackinnon?
A) Tim Wu
B) Rebiya Kadeer
C) Lawrence Lessig
D) Al Franken
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Chapter 8: Biotech and Genetic Engineering
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Q1) When was the first cloned sheep born?
A) 1992
B) 1995
C) 1997
D) 1999
Q2) Which movie depicts a future in which children are screened for sex,height,immunity to disease,and IQ?
A) The Matrix
B) Splice
C) Gattaca
D) The Truman Show
Q3) Who said that "what the public wants is not to be sick"?
A) Leon Kass
B) John Searle
C) James Watson
D) Aldus Huxley
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Chapter 9: Population, environment, Climate Change
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Q1) Carbon dioxide,nitrogen oxide and methane are examples of what?
A) Solar energy
B) Breathable gases
C) Gaian stabilization
D) Greenhouse gases
Q2) Who asked for a "one-armed scientist" to offer testimony concerning clean-air legislation?
A) Edmund Muskie
B) Peter Singer
C) Bill Grieder
D) Tom Friedman
Q3) Which tree does Robert W.Kates focus on in his article in this volume?
A) Olive
B) Oak
C) Neem
D) Maple
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