Chapter 6: Work
Chapter 7: Evaluating and Controlling Technology
Chapter 8: Errors, Failures & Risk
Final Jeopardy
100

IDENTITY THEFT!

You just lost all your money! :(

100

This is a term used to describe people who oppose technological progress.

What is a Luddite

100

This system detects a potential in air collision of two airplanes and directs the pilots in different directions to avoid each other.  

What is The Traffic Collision Avoidance System

200

This refers to working at home using computing equipment instead of commuting to an employer’s office

 

What is Telecommuting

200

An Observation made my Gordon Moore in 1965, stating that the computing power of new microprocessors doubles roughly every 18 to 24 months. 

What is Moore’s Law

200

This is an organization that operates in difficult environments, often using complex technology, where failures can have extreme consequences.   

What is an HRO

300

The offshoring of skilled work sometimes called 

 

What is Knowledge work

300

This term refers to the point at which artificial intelligence or some combined human-machine intelligence advances so far that we cannot comprehend what is on the other side.   

What is technological singularity

300

Activities or ways users will interact with the system.  

What is “user stories”?

400

What do retail businesses report losing more from than shoplifters

 

What is Employee theft

400

Simplifications and assumptions that are made when designing this  

What is a computer model

400

This aircraft attacked a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, killing 30 staff and patients, due to human error and technological failures. 

What is U.S. Air Force AC-130 Gunship

500

This Act prohibits interception of email and reading of stored emails without a court order? 


What is The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)

500

This term refers to the fact that some groups of people regularly use various forms of modern technology, while others do not or cannot.  

What is digital divide

500

This act was passed in 2002 by Congress, authorizing $3.8 million to improve voting systems. 

 

What is the Help America Vote Act?

500

What was the most important thing you learned in the class?

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