social implications of technology

Three points of social involvement in technology innovation.

• - social need

• - social resources

• - sympathetic social context

What is information maturity

The phrase used to describe a society in which information is sought out, evaluated, and valued.

It is an essential part of participatory democracy.

Describe some advantages of using satellite navigation systems.

• fleet managers can keep track of route individual vehicles

• pilots have better instrumentation for terrain awareness

• navigation systems

• allows everyone to use gps systems

How is technology affecting schools across the country

There are increasing numbers of computers in use in schools. In addition, more and more classrooms are connected to the Internet.

How has technology changed the modes of communication

Traditional ways of face-to-face communication included meetings, conferences, seminars, and classroom lectures can now be done online

replaced through electronic mail, bulletin boards, and teleconferencing

What is the right of privacy?

The right to not be disturbed emotionally by conduct designed to subject the victim to great tensions by baring his intimate life and affairs to public view or by humiliating and annoying invasions of his solitude.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis describes the right of privacy and the right to be left alone

What is dumpster diving

The practice of looking through the material discarded in dumpsters in hope of finding valuable information. usually, the retrieved material leads to identity theft.

What protection for an individual is provided by a websites privacy policy?

It prohibits the release of personally identifiable information such as the user’s name. By agreeing to it, the individual tacitly authorizes the web site owner to use online activity, browsing history, etc. to be shared with third parties for marketing purposes or usage studies. The information must be anonymous and not contain anything that would tie it to a specific person

Describe a potentially negative effect of the internet on children

Children’s web sites may combine educational and entertainment information and activities with interactive advertising and direct selling. Children may have difficulty differentiating between advertising and programming content. This raises the concert about the possibility of deception and manipulation.

Union catalogs

electronic card catalogs encompassing several interconnected library systems which provide user access to vast amounts of information

telecommuting

allows individuals to work at home by using electronic link to a central office

e-commerce

buying or selling goods and services on the internet, especially the world wide bed