Ethics for the Information Age 9th Edition TEST BANK Michael J. Quinn Latest Update

Chapter 1
The two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been
a) books and pamphlets.
b) computers and communication networks. <
c) radio and television.
d) newspapers and magazines.
e) smartphones and cable television networks.
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Which of the following was not a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic?
a) Billions of people around the world experienced lockdown.
b) Students living in homes without high-speed Internet access were disadvantaged.
c) Millions of people began working from home for the first time.
d) Concerns about governmental overreach led to the invention of cryptocurrencies. <
e) Meeting through Zoom became much more popular.
Which statement best supports the conclusion that society can control whether to adopt a new
technology?
a) About half of all email messages are spam.
b) Despite decades of research, fusion power is an elusive goal.
c) People do not have to listen to Howard Stern if they do not want to.
d) Some new technologies are simply too expensive to even consider adopting.
e) After the accident at Three Mile Island, 67 nuclear reactor construction projects were
canceled. <
Tablets, abacuses, and manual tables
a) are no longer used, because of the proliferation of calculators and computers.
b) are examples of aids to manual calculating. <
c) were developed in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages.
d) replaced Hindu-Arabic numerals as the preferred way to do calculations.
e) All of the above
The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because
a) they were too expensive.
b) there were unreliable. <
c) they were too difficult to program.
d) they could not handle fractions.
e) bookkeepers successfully lobbied the King, and he made the machines illegal.
The calculating machine of Georg and Edvard Sheutz
a) computed the values of polynomial functions.
b) typeset the results of its computations.
c) performed calculations faster than they could be done manually.
d) performed calculations more reliably than could be done manually.
e) All of the above. <