Thursday, 14 February 2008

Midterm Questions

First of all thank god that Ben put the study guide in PDF format!!! :)
1. What is a switch and why is it important for digital technology?
2. what are the two problesm that empires must deal with per innis???
3. Gray Goo scenario

5 comments:

Jessamine said...

A switch is used in a wired network to connect Ethernet cables from a number of devices together, a network switches is a small hardware device that join multiple computers together at a low-level network protocol layer.

Jessamine said...

ability to exert control over time and space

Jessamine said...

a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all living matter on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario known as ecophagy).

Use this as an example for explaining dystopia

Nick Klaus said...

Jessamine: I was under the impression that the ability to flip bits between off and on () and 1) was the more significant part of switching.

Fan said...

yeah, that's the rationale, then try to apply it to different contexts