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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic interplay between technological development and societal change, examining how innovations in fields such as communication, transportation, medicine, and information technology have influenced social structures, values, and day-to-day life. Students will analyze historical examples and contemporary case studies to understand the mutual impact between technology and society, including issues related to ethics, equity, policy, and cultural adaptation. Through discussions and critical analysis, the course encourages students to consider the social responsibility of innovators and users, and to reflect on the implications of emerging technologies for the future.
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Society Ethics and Technology 5th Edition by Morton Winston
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Chapter 1: History
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Q1) Otto von Guericke was the mayor of what German city in what year when he designed an air pump?
A) Magdeburg in 1698
B) Munich in 1698
C) Magdeburg in 1654
D) Munich in 1654
Answer: C
Q2) When was the first telegraph line built?
A) 1786
B) 1820
C) 1843
D) 1876
Answer: C
Q3) What did congestion bring in its wake?
A) Health
B) Disease
C) Automobiles
D) The powergrid
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Society
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Q1) Who developed the concept of "delegation to non-humans"?
A) Foucault
B) Kuhn
C) Habermas
D) Latour
Answer: D
Q2) According to Turk,what criteria do children who play with computers that "talk" and "think" use for distinguishing things that are alive from things that are not?
A) Social criteria
B) Physical criteria
C) Material criteria
D) Psychological criteria
Answer: D
Q3) 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
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Chapter 3: Ethics
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Q1) Moral action is amenable to both a causal explanation and a:
A) Moral explanation
B) Reason explanation
C) Casual explanation
D) Technological explanation
Answer: B
Q2) Design functions,like mathematical functions,are not:
A) One-to-many relations
B) Accessible relations
C) Intentional relations
D) Artifacts
Answer: A
Q3) What model of intentional behavior has contemporary action theory suggested?
A) A casual model
B) A modal model
C) A causal model
D) A technological model
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Security Surveillance
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Q1) 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
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) How much does the Teal Group estimate the aerial drone industry will be worth per year over the next decade?
A) $100 billion
B) $11.3 billion
C) $111.3 billion
D) $100 million
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Chapter 5: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
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Q1) The statement "The most important moral obligation is our personal relationship with the action of making or using robots" defines what school of ethics?
A) Modern Ethics
B) Virtue Ethics
C) Descriptive Ethics
D) Rights Ethics
Q2) Whose research in science and society has sustained the idea that technoscientific knowledge stabilizes in society?
A) Renè von Schomberg
B) John Rawls
C) Sheila Jasanoff
D) Isaac Asimov
Q3) What does Movellan point out are innate to human babies that would have to be programmed into a robot?
A) Ambition
B) Needs
C) Emotion
D) Knowledge
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Chapter 6: Nanotechnology
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Q1) Who has developed the concept of building molecule-scale devices using molecular assemblers that would precisely guide chemical reactions by means of information?
A) Eric Drexler
B) Robert Freitas
C) Gordon Moore
D) Bill Joy
Q2) What does Kurzweil consider the most significant implication of nanotechnology?
A) The merger of robotic and nonbiological intelligence
B) The merger of cryogenic and nonbiological intelligence
C) The merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence
D) The merger of bionic and nonbiological intelligence
Q3) At what point does Kurzweil anticipate nonbiological intelligence will definitely surpass biological intelligence?
A) 2050
B) 2015
C) 2100
D) 2233
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Chapter 7: Inernet & Social Media
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Q1) Flanigan states that the Internet's end-to-end structure is well-suited for:
A) Incubation
B) Infrastructure
C) Isolation
D) Innovation
Q2) What process calculates the preferences of a group of people that is used to make recommendations to target individuals?
A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology
Q3) Maryanne Wolf argues deep reading is indistinguishable from:
A) Intellectual conversation
B) Deep thinking
C) Deep study
D) Internet research
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Chapter 8: Biotech and Genetic Engineering
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Q1) Who held that "repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom"?
A) Kass
B) Huxley
C) Asimov
D) Kant
Q2) What does MicroSort do?
A) Allows one to choose the sex of a child before it is conceived
B) Allows one to choose the height of a child before it is conceived
C) Allows one to identify genetically defective embryos in utero
D) Allows one to perform gene sequencing on embryos in utero
Q3) When was Brave New World published?
A) 1925
B) 1932
C) 1945
D) 1952
Q4) What type of theory does Rawls develop?
A) A social contract theory
B) A social conscience theory
C) A utilitarian theory
D) A virtue theory
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Chapter 9: Population, environment, Climate Change
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Q1) What is now central to the goals of many international organizations,national institutions,and transnational corporations?
A) Globalization
B) Privatization
C) Sustainable development
D) Transparency
Q2) What rare-earth element is essential in the production of permanent magnets for hybrid-vehicle motors?
A) Tantalum
B) Neodymium
C) Niobium
D) Chromium
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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