Education
This free-to-use artificial intelligence program was launched to the public in late 2022.
ChatGPT
Approximately 30 million adults in America suffer from this mental health disorder, making it the most common category of mental health disorders in America.
Anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorders)
In On Killing, Lieutenant David Grossman describes the four responses to intraspecies threat: fight, flight/flee, submit and ______.
Posture
The authors of Bright Green Lies trace the origin of mass scale environmental destruction to the start of ______.
Agriculture
This popular anthology television series, which began in the 2010’s, explores near-future dystopias often characterized by sci-fi technology.
Black Mirror
In 2020, this mobile app was downloaded 485 million times and made $1.95 billion.
Zoom
This is the most commonly used assisted artificial reproductive technology.
IVF (In Vitro Fertilization)
The United States is the first and only country to have used this type of weapon in combat.
Nuclear bomb
Soybeans, corn, canola and cotton are examples of commonly __________ foods.
GMO (Genetically Modified or Genetically Engineered Organisms)
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this famous Hollywood franchise about humans fighting robots.
The Terminator
This web-based learning management system, adopted by EOU in the 2010’s, is owned by $3.76 billion ed-tech company Instructure.
Canvas
1 in ___ 18-24 year olds seriously considered suicide in the month of June 2020.
4
Since 9/11, the US military has carried out this type of strike in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
Drone strike
It takes between 20-500 years for this material, usually made from crude oil, to degrade.
Plastic
The 2013 sci-fi romance Her depicts a man who falls in love with fictional artificial digital assistant resembling this real artificial digital assistant.
In 2022, Florida’s Optima Classical Academy opened a school in the _______, the first of its kind.
Metaverse
This controversial brain implant technology recently received FDA clearance for its first-in-human clinical trial.
Neuralink
Based on Marshall's studies (depicted in On Killing), the military instituted training measures to break down soldiers’ resistance to firing, raising soldiers' firing rates to over 90 percent during this war.
Vietnam War
This precious metal has to be heavily mined from the earth in order to manufacture electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and most “smart” devices.
Lithium
This portable device became popular in the late 90’s and 2000’s, but declined in popularity in the 2010’s due to the increasing popularity of touchscreen smartphones.
Flip phone
This historical period, also referred to as the Computer Age and the Digital Age, began in the mid-20th century and is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries to an economy centered on computer systems, software, programming and data.
The Information Age
In 2022, EctoLife launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign depicting this (currently) fictional reproductive technology.
Artificial wombs
In recent years both LAPD and NYPD have used this controversial 4-legged machine manufactured by Boston Dynamics.
Located 2 hours from La Grande in south-central Washington State, this is the most contaminated nuclear site in the US.
Hanford
At her jubilee in 2022, Queen Elizabeth II appeared waving inside a golden carriage via this technology.
Hologram