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1
A new medium (technology), as observed in "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change":
A)simply adds something.
B)usually takes something away.
C)changes everything.
D)changes nothing.
2
As stated in "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change," in American society, the most significant "radicals" have always been:
A)religious figures.
B)capitalists.
C)socialists.
D)educators.
3
As asserted in "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change," there are always both winners and losers in technological change.
A)True
B)False
4
As expressed in "The Social Century," we have lived through an evolution of communications technology that could be likened to a:
A)Cambrian explosion.
B)Category 5 hurricane.
C)slow boat to China.
D)frenetic flip book.
5
As shown in "The Social Century," the featured graph--depicting a 110-year history of talking, watching, reading, and writing--is from a paper on social networks created at the:
A)McKinsey Global Institute.
B)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
C)School of Science at Marist College.
D)iRanger Laboratories.
6
As pointed out in "The Social Century," in 1900, if you owned a telephone, you were the 1 percent.
A)True
B)False
7
The author of "It's A Flat World, After All" came to the conclusion that globalization was a reality while he was:
A)surfing the Internet late one night.
B)helping his daughters with their homework.
C)visiting Bangalore, India.
D)attempting to buy goods made in America.
8
As claimed in "It's A Flat World, After All," when the world is flat, you can innovate without having to:
A)emigrate.
B)translate.
C)graduate.
D)obfuscate.
9
As asserted in "It's A Flat World, After All," if Wal-Mart were a country, it would be China's eighth-largest trading partner.
A)True
B)False
10
According to the author of "How Google Dominates Us," Google is the oracle of:
A)prediction.
B)redirection.
C)information.
D)advertising.
11
As reported in "How Google Dominates Us," the ultimate dream for Google, according to its founders, is for Google to be:
A)the only search engine on the Internet.
B)the wealthiest company in the world.
C)a library containing every book ever printed.
D)implanted in people's brains as a way to get instant information.
12
As given in "How Google Dominates Us," the Google corporate motto is "Don't be evil."
A)True
B)False
13
As cited in "What Facebook Knows," Cameron Marlow calls himself Facebook's:
A)missing link.
B)viewfinder to the future.
C)most ruthless critic.
D)in-house sociologist.
14
As mentioned in "What Facebook Knows," while at MIT's Media Lab in 2001, Cameron Marlow created a website (which automatically listed the most "contagious" information spreading on weblogs) called:
A)Virosphere.
B)Blogdex.
C)Camlow.
D)iNdEx.
15
As stated in "What Facebook Knows," if Facebook were a country (a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public), its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world.
A)True
B)False
16
As mentioned in "The Decision Lens," the author sets her jogging routes by using apps like:
A)Paces.
B)MapMyRun.
C)TrotPlot.
D)Catapult.
17
As noted in "The Decision Lens," one app, called Alfred, uses your past choices to suggest nearby restaurants you would like and is dubbed "your:
A)concierge."
B)personal robot."
C)thinking journal."
D)pal Al."
18
As cited in "The Decision Lens," Dean Eckles of Stanford University believes that the social influence of interactive technologies is basically invisible to people.
A)True
B)False
19
As pointed out in "Beyond Credit Cards: Q&A with Dan Schulman of American Express," the first widely accepted plastic charge card was issued by American Express in:
A)1938.
B)1947.
C)1959.
D)1965.
20
As addressed in "Beyond Credit Cards: Q&A with Dan Schulman of American Express," Amex's Serve aims to compete directly with:
A)Visa Online.
B)Western Union.
C)GreenBank.
D)PayPal.
21
As mentioned in "Beyond Credit Cards: Q&A with Dan Schulman of American Express," Schulman, who has headed Amex's Enterprise Growth division since 2010, was once CEO of Cellular One.
A)True
B)False
22
As profiled in "My Life as a Telecommuting Robot," the telepresence robot utilized by the author was made by:
A)Anybots Inc.
B)VGo Communications Inc.
C)iRobot Corp.
D)Xaxxon Technologies.
23
As identified in "My Life as a Telecommuting Robot," video screens known as virtual windows, installed so that far-off teams appear to be working side-by-side, are also called:
A)fence holes.
B)peepholes.
C)wormholes.
D)knotholes.
24
As concluded in "My Life as a Telecommuting Robot," despite technological hurdles and expense, it will be in the very near future that robots are as common in the office as, say, Skype.
A)True
B)False
25
According to "Automation on the Job," the percentage of the adult population that is working or seeking work has risen throughout the period of automation taking hold, largely because of:
A)the increase in overall population.
B)growth in the service industry.
C)the need to monitor the machines, including computers, that provide automation.
D)women entering the workforce.
26
As mentioned in "Automation on the Job," the term "technological unemployment" originated with:
A)Bill Gates.
B)Henry Ford.
C)Karl Marx.
D)Charles Darwin.
27
As stated in "Automation on the Job," the "economic problem" is, simply, how to get enough to eat.
A)True
B)False
28
As noted in "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes," within days of being ousted from Apple in 1985, Steve Jobs set about creating another computer company, which was called:
A)NeXT.
B)AfterMath.
C)C-Quence.
D)Deux.
29
As mentioned in "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes," Steve Jobs always said he could think better when he:
A)ran.
B)bicycled.
C)walked.
D)closed his eyes.
30
As pointed out in "The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes," of the three companies Jobs helped create, Pixar was the purest corporate and organizational expression of his nature.
A)True
B)False
31
As hypothesized in "Women, Mathematics, and Computing," women would be drawn more to studying computer science if:
A)more scholarships were offered.
B)the career outlook in the field were more favorable.
C)the field were structured with the precision of mathematics.
D)it were not so male-dominated.
32
As noted in "Women, Mathematics, and Computing," one indication of the complexity of a computer-science course is the:
A)training of the professor.
B)evaluations by previous classes.
C)size of the textbook.
D)reputation of the school.
33
As claimed in "Women, Mathematics, and Computing," women receive nearly half of bachelor's degrees conferred in mathematics.
A)True
B)False
34
In "Small Change," Gladwell focuses on the activities of the Greensboro Four, who worked for social change by beginning the:
A)voter registration movement in the South.
B)sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter.
C)Montgomery bus boycott.
D)March on Washington.
35
In "Small Change," Malcolm Gladwell argues that Facebook and other online social media are networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of:
A)individuals.
B)governments.
C)hierarchies.
D)political parties.
36
As noted in "Small Change," the unquestioned leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was Martin Luther King, Jr.
A)True
B)False
37
As explained in "Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society," although technology is being lauded for encouraging diversity and facilitating cross-cultural communication, there is a counter-trend known as:
A)the electronic divide.
B)intra-social solidarity.
C)virtual insularity.
D)digital tribalism.
38
As cited in "Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society," the pollster John Zogby calls the emerging generation that links up through IM, Twitter, blogs, smart-phones, and social networking sites:
A)Generation Z.
B)Virtual Villagers.
C)World Citizens.
D)First Globals.
39
As mentioned in "Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society," Chinese people who participate in wang hun, or online role-play marriages, are sometimes getting divorced on the grounds that this constitutes adultery.
A)True
B)False
40
As noted in "R U Friends 4 Real?," social psychologist Sherry Turkle put 15 years of research and observation of children and adult interactions with technology into her 2011 book:
A)See You Next Week.
B)Where Did Everybody Go?
C)Compartments.
D)Alone Together.
41
According to "R U Friends 4 Real?," a 2010 study by psychology professor Malinda Desjarlais revealed that playing computer games with friends has positive effects on:
A)isolated elderly Internet users.
B)socially anxious teen boys.
C)adolescent girls much more so than has been assumed.
D)learning-disabled students.
42
As cited in "R U Friends 4 Real?," Margarita Azmitia, a psychology professor who studies adolescent friendships, is among those who contend that the social-networking technologies have completely overhauled the ways teens interact.
A)True
B)False
43
As noted in "The YouTube Cure," even before Paolo Zamboni published the results of his study on a surgical treatment for MS sufferers, news of his research showed up in a post on the online patient-community site:
A)HealthSupport.org.
B)e-patients.net.
C)CarePages.org.
D)PatientsLikeMe.com.
44
As pointed out in "The YouTube Cure," the most common form of multiple sclerosis is:
A)primary-progressive MS.
B)secondary-progressive MS.
C)progressive-relapsing MS.
D)relapse-remitting MS.
45
According to "The YouTube Cure," most MS experts believe that undergoing Zamboni's procedure at the present time is a very risky proposition.
A)True
B)False
46
As discussed in "Everyone's a Player," a key recruitment and training tool used by the U.S. military is the genre of video games known as:
A)militainment.
B)simulated defense.
C)warplay.
D)screenshooting.
47
According to "Everyone's a Player," at age 13, game designer and Carnegie Mellon professor Jesse Schell designed his first computer game, a rudimentary:
A)fishing competition.
B)cockfight.
C)wrestling match.
D)triathlon.
48
As concluded in "Everyone's a Player," although games are prolific, sophisticated, and culturally significant, they are not likely to transform our concepts of work, education, and commerce.
A)True
B)False
49
As detailed in "Hacking the Lights Out," the Stuxnet virus entered a computer system via a:
A)Trojan horse.
B)software update.
C)botnet.
D)USB stick.
50
As related in "Hacking the Lights Out," one example of a computer virus attacking industrial machines was the Stuxnet virus, which targeted:
A)Iran's nuclear-enrichment facilities.
B)Detroit's automobile factories.
C)Japan's aircraft industry.
D)Iraq's oil refineries.
51
As noted in "Hacking the Lights Out," one reason the electrical grid is so vulnerable is that the computers that control the grid are directly connected to the Internet.
A)True
B)False
52
As identified in "Bride of Stuxnet," Kaspersky Lab is a computer-security firm in:
A)Iran.
B)Russia.
C)Poland.
D)Massachusetts.
53
As stated in "Bride of Stuxnet," the techs at Kaspersky characterize Flame as a cyber-weapon that makes Stuxnet:
A)its "sister ship."
B)even more menacing.
C)impotent.
D)look primitive.
54
According to "Bride of Stuxnet," unlike most malware, Flame takes up 20 megabytes, which is positively gargantuan.
A)True
B)False
55
As pointed out in "Me and My Data: How Much Do the Internet Giants Really Know?," Google is not only the world's largest search engine, it is also all of the following, except:
A)the world's largest email provider.
B)owner of YouTube, the world's largest video site.
C)a social network.
D)owner of the Blogger platform.
56
As revealed in "Me and My Data: How Much Do the Internet Giants Really Know?," Google has two tools that help show the information it holds on you, one of which has run for about three years and gathers information from almost all of Google's services in one place, and which is called the Google:
A)Repository.
B)Dashboard.
C)Fortress.
D)Sandbox.
57
As mentioned in "Me and My Data: How Much Do the Internet Giants Really Know?," Facebook has the social contacts, messages, wallposts, and photos of more than 750 million people.
A)True
B)False
58
As indicated in "The Web's Goldmine: Your Secrets," a beacon is:
A)a new type of search engine.
B)a cookie.
C)software that captures what people type on a website.
D)software that tracks what websites people visit.
59
As explained in "The Web's Goldmine: Your Secrets," today's advertisers are especially interested in:
A)maintaining a web presence through their own websites.
B)following people as they surf the web to identify their interests for marketing purposes.
C)buying priority space on search engines like Google.
D)buying ads on websites specifically geared toward their business.
60
As noted in "The Web's Goldmine: Your Secrets," the nonprofit website Wikipedia installs an average of 64 pieces of tracking technology onto the computers of visitors.
A)True
B)False
61
As noted in "The Conundrum of Visibility: Youth Safety and the Internet," when it comes to sexual solicitation of minors, the Internet:
A)increases the chance that a youth will be at risk for this illegal interaction.
B)makes it harder to identify at-risk youth engaging in risky behaviors.
C)increases the probability that young children will be victims.
D)provides a new forum for this problematic interaction.
62
As maintained in "The Conundrum of Visibility: Youth Safety and the Internet," cyber-bullying among youth:
A)is a new form of the age-old torment and harassment that some youths perpetrate on others.
B)is especially insidious since the perpetrators are often unknown.
C)operates at a level where it cannot be viewed by adults.
D)has created a new bully culture.
63
As claimed in "The Conundrum of Visibility: Youth Safety and the Internet," 41 percent of youth who harass online are friends or former friends of their victim.
A)True
B)False
64
As pointed out in "Know Your Rights!," if the computer being searched by police is one you share with co-workers, you will have:
A)the full protection of the Fourth Amendment.
B)less Fourth Amendment protection.
C)no constitutional recourse.
D)no reason to plead the Fifth Amendment.
65
As stated in "Know Your Rights!," if you work for a public entity or government agency, no warrant is required to search your computer or office:
A)if you were hired within the previous 90 days.
B)unless you work from home.
C)under any circumstances.
D)as long as the search is for a non-investigative, work-related matter.
66
According to "Know Your Rights!," typically, the police can search a hard drive if one person with control (for example, a spouse) consents, even if another individual (the other spouse) with control does not.
A)True
B)False
67
As noted in "The Yin and Yang of Copyright and Technology," the music industry has struggled to find a strategy to control illegal downloads since at least the advent of:
A)Aimster.
B)Grokster.
C)Napster.
D)Rockster.
68
As worded in "The Yin and Yang of Copyright and Technology," in an effort to control its copyrights, the music industry started by chasing firms that were facilitating peer-to-peer file swapping, but this was like:
A)chasing quicksilver.
B)taunting a wolverine.
C)wrestling with the wind.
D)dancing with a freight train.
69
As expressed in "The Yin and Yang of Copyright and Technology," the rights model of U.S. copyright law is premised on the notion that copyright holders are entitled to control the making of copies of their works, but technology has made that control somewhere between fragile and nonexistent.
A)True
B)False
70
As cited in "The Online Copyright War: The Day the Internet Hit Back at Big Media," the film industry lobbyist who in 1982 said that the VCR was like the Boston Strangler preparing to murder the innocents of Hollywood, was:
A)Mike Masnick.
B)Yancey Strickler.
C)Jack Valenti.
D)Ed Epstein.
71
As indentified in "The Online Copyright War: The Day the Internet Hit Back at Big Media," the website co-founded by Alexis Ohanian is:
A)Wikipedia.
B)Reddit.
C)TechDirt.
D)Silicon Sally.
72
According to "The Online Copyright War: The Day the Internet Hit Back at Big Media," Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp empire includes the Fox studios, has asserted that the piracy leader is Google.
A)True
B)False
73
As set forth in "Can Online Piracy Be Stopped by Laws?," SOPA is fundamentally inconsistent with:
A)DNSSEC.
B)the First Amendment.
C)itself.
D)the traditional understanding of intellectual property rights.
74
According to "Can Online Piracy Be Stopped by Laws?," many Internet companies considered the "dedicated-to-theft" definition to be fundamentally inconsistent with the safe harbors established by the:
A)Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
B)Internet Security Commission.
C)International Freedom of Communications Treaty.
D)U.S. Department of Commerce.
75
As noted in "Can Online Piracy Be Stopped by Laws?," the safe harbors have been an important factor in the extraordinary growth of the Internet economy.
A)True
B)False
76
As established in "Aaron Swartz Hacks the Attention Economy," programmer Aaron Swartz faces criminal charges that he downloaded 4.8 million journal articles after hacking into the computer system of:
A)the Pentagon.
B)Forbes Publishing.
C)MIT.
D)Microsoft.
77
According to "Aaron Swartz Hacks the Attention Economy," Swartz grew up in a suburb of:
A)Miami.
B)Quebec.
C)Albuquerque.
D)Chicago.
78
As disclosed in "Aaron Swartz Hacks the Attention Economy," Swartz's lawyer advised him not to be interviewed, even if Swartz agreed not to discuss his pending criminal case or his 2008 manifesto.
A)True
B)False
79
As maintained in "Internet Censorship Listed," most countries planning on engaging in Internet censorship start by talking about:
A)legality.
B)public reaction.
C)political activity.
D)a broad category of inappropriate content.
80
As presented in "Internet Censorship Listed," the country with the worst rank for Internet censorship is:
A)Thailand.
B)France.
C)Iran.
D)Saudi Arabia.
81
As shown in "Internet Censorship Listed," the United States and China had about the same level of Internet censorship.
A)True
B)False
82
As disclosed in "Watch Your Language! (In China, They Really Do)," as of March 16, 2012, new government regulations in China imposed certain requirements on Sina Weibo users, which, in short, means no more:
A)anonymity.
B)blogging.
C)Sina Weibo.
D)access to the site between 8 pm and 6 am.
83
As related in "Watch Your Language! (In China, They Really Do)," among the underground terms to emerge from the Chinese Internet, there once were mentions of big doings in "the tomato," which in Mandarin sounds like "western red city," a new online euphemism for:
A)Shanghai.
B)Moscow.
C)Chongqing.
D)Beijing.
84
As noted in "Watch Your Language! (In China, They Really Do)," both Twitter and Facebook are blocked by the Chinese government.
A)True
B)False
85
As mentioned in "Global Trends to Watch," the panel discussion covered here took place at the Internet Governance Forum in:
A)Kenya.
B)Austria.
C)Canada.
D)Argentina.
86
As reported in "Global Trends to Watch," India RIM was forced to provide intercept capabilities to its:
A)corporate communications network.
B)tutorial videos.
C)Blackberry services.
D)staff email.
87
As cited in "Global Trends to Watch," panelist Christopher Soghoian, a research fellow at Indiana University, noted that cloud computing has made surveillance and the seizure of personal documents much easier and less expansive for U.S. law enforcement.
A)True
B)False
88
As mentioned in "How to Spot the Future," 30 years ago, John Naisbitt wrote his prescient vision of America's future, titled:
A)Mindbenders.
B)Megatrends.
C)Futurama.
D)Tech-Terrific.
89
As pointed out in "How to Spot the Future," when mathematician John von Neumann crossed physics and engineering, he helped hatch both the Manhattan Project and:
A)computer science.
B)game theory.
C)television.
D)microwave technology.
90
As stated in "How to Spot the Future," too often in technology, design is applied like a veneer long before the hard work is done.
A)True
B)False
91
As revealed in "Weighing Watson's Impact," Watson was named for:
A)Dr. John Watson, narrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
B)electrical designer Thomas A. Watson, the recipient of Alexander Graham Bell's first phone call.
C)IBM's founder, Thomas J. Watson.
D)Emma Watson, who played Hermione in the Harry Potter movies.
92
As related in "Weighing Watson's Impact," the million-dollar prize Watson won on Jeopardy! was:
A)paid to IBM and used for further research.
B)divided between his two human opponents.
C)paid as bonuses to members of the IBM team that created him.
D)donated to charity.
93
As reported in "Weighing Watson's Impact," Watson had to take the same tests that humans do to qualify for the show.
A)True
B)False
94
As noted in "Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real," in the summer of 2009, Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app that blurred the line between the real and the virtual; this feature was called:
A)Pericles.
B)Zephyr.
C)Kaleidoscope.
D)Monocle.
95
As pointed out in "Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real," to determine one's location and direction, early augmented-reality smartphone apps used a device's GPS and:
A)digital compass.
B)radar chip.
C)camera.
D)sonar receiver.
96
As observed in "Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real," augmented reality is no longer mostly used only by early tech adopters.
A)True
B)False
97
As identified in "You Will Want Google Goggles," Google's special-projects lab is called:
A)Google X.
B)MadLab.
C)Googol.
D)Monkey Star.
98
As pointed out in "You Will Want Google Goggles," Thad Starner's "heads-up display" is:
A)for show only, with no functional capability.
B)Google's surprise competition.
C)his own system.
D)a prototype of Project Glass.
99
As concluded in "You Will Want Google Goggles," wearable computers seem certain to conquer the world.
A)True
B)False
100
As expressed in "Gene Machine," the PGM was developed in a drab office park overlooking a duck pond in:
A)Haverhill, Massachusetts.
B)Guilford, Connecticut.
C)Marietta, Pennsylvania.
D)Genoa, Nevada.
101
As quoted in "Gene Machine," PGM developer Jonathan Rothberg predicts that sequencing is going to affect everything, making this "biology's century," much as the foundation of the last century was:
A)electronics.
B)medicine.
C)physics.
D)economics.
102
As pointed out in "Gene Machine," the first version of the PGM can read a modest 20 genes at once.
A)True
B)False





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