Bush describes his vision of a new form of technology. What does he call this? Correct Answer: The Memex
Which of the following is NOT a technology that Bush uses as inspiration for his proposed technology?
-Dry pho
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Bush describes his vision of a new form of technology. What does he call this? Correct Answer: The Memex
Which of the following is NOT a technology that Bush uses as inspiration for his proposed technology?
-Dry photography
-Adding machines
-Voice recognitions
-The Internet Correct Answer: The Internet
What does Bush envision as the primary use of this technology? Correct Answer: Rapid information, storage, categorization and retrieval
What is the primary conundrum that drove Trist and Bamforth to study British coal-mining techniques? Correct Answer: Mines were seeing surprisingly small benefits from the adoption of new coal-mining technologies
What was the benefit of the "hand got" method over the "long wall" mining techniques? Correct Answer: Workers were more autonomous in "hand got" mining
Why was being the "filler" the worst job in the long wall method? Correct Answer: -Your work's difficulty depended on how well previous shifts did their jobs
-If you were assigned a difficult section of the wall, you were stuck with it for your whole shift
-Absenteeism was so common that you often had to work overtime to get the job done
Licklider & Taylor discuss how a recent interaction with a prototype communication technology inspired them to write this paper. What was that technology? Correct Answer: A meeting tool that allowed participants to display and interact with shared graphics
Licklider & Taylor conceptualize communication as: Correct Answer: A process of comparing and modifying mental models
Licklider & Taylor's primary argument is that digital communication technologies: Correct Answer: Have the potential to improve communication effectiveness
Which feature of email was used to explain the majority of Sproull & Kiesler's findings? Correct Answer: It reduces the availability of cues about senders' and receivers' social context
Which of email's potential influences motivated the authors to design this study? Correct Answer: Its potential to transform who has access to what information in organizations
One of the major findings of this study is that people are _______________ when they use email Correct Answer: Likely to engage in uninhibited behavior
Which of the following is on
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