Post Assessment: Information Age (STS)

___________ is virtually any device that has a microprocessor in it.

• information

• computer

• radio

• telegraph

Tightly integrated computers that usually have no keyboards but rely on a touch screen for user input.

• Personal Computers

• Laptops

• Desktops

• Personal Digital Assistants

People tend to filter information that suits their interest. This shows _______.

• Information must compete.

• Newer is equated with truer.

• Selection is a viewpoint.

• Anything in great demand will be counterfeited.

With the advancement of information transfer, we tend to focus more on new information than in old information. We almost forget that old information endures.

• The media sells what the culture buys.

• Newer is equated with truer.

• Selection is a viewpoint.

• Anything in great demand will be counterfeited.

It is considered as the first operating system that could handle multitasking.

• UNIX

• Windows

• IBM

• Linux

He invented the printing press using movable metal type.

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Augusta Lady Lovelace Byron

• Eadweard Muybridge

• Lee DeForest

He introduced the idea of "information anxiety".

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Augusta Lady Lovelace Byron

• Eadweard Muybridge

• Richard Wurman

When a specific media outlet is the first to cover an important event, that media outlet tends to establish the scenario of that particular event.

• The media sells what the culture buys.

• The early word gets the perm.

• You are what you eat and so is your brain.

• Anything in great demand will be counterfeited

A false information may continue to circulate as long as it is believed by majority of the people.

• Undead information walks ever on.

• Media presence creates the story.

• The medium selects the message.

• The whole truth is a pursuit.

A computer that has been improved to provide network services to other computers.

• Server

• Mainframe

• Wearable computer

• Laptop