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Skepticism
Information
Globalization
Community & Privacy
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This word describes the new spirit of questioning that emerged in the early modern age.
What is skepticism?
100
Raw, unprocessed facts, numbers, or signals.
What is data?
100
This process, which is often used to describe the contemporary age, has actually been underway for many centuries.
What is globalization?
100
This Renaissance author spoke of man as "the maker and molder of himself."
Who is Mirandola?
200
This novel explores the boundaries of reality and illusion and has been called the "first modern novel."
What is "Don Quixote"?
200
Data that is interpreted and "processed" into patterns.
What is information?
200
The beginning of the modern era of globalization began with this new technology.
What is a satellite?
200
There are over 51,000 of these in London.
What are cameras?
300
Known as the "father of modern philosophy," he claimed that the only thing he was certain of was his own ability to think.
Who is Descartes?
300
When information is turned into instructions, it is called this.
What is knowledge?
300
This is recognized as the first truly "global event."
What is the moon landing in 1969?
300
We referred in class to this North African tribe when discussing different ways of viewing privacy.
Who are the Sawhari?
300
This is the stable "fertility rate" at which a population replaces itself from generation to generation.
What is 2.1?
400
This Spanish painter produced one of the greatest masterpieces of western art, a skeptical exploration of the problems of perception.
Who is Velazquez?
400
This is known as the first webcam.
What is the Trojan Room Coffee Pot?
400
We used this example from contemporary American travel to illustrate how privacy is balanced with other issues.
What is the TSA?
500
In the modern western world, this has replaced the medieval Church as the source of authority.
What is science?
500
This term describes the point where information is projected to surpass human intelligence.
What is the Singularity?
500
We traced the global journey of this product in class.
What is a t-shirt?
500
The new director of engineering at Google, this man plans on downloading his brain and living forever.
Who is Ray Kurzweil?