invent it
study Babbage's Analytical Engine
study artificial intelligence
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418 A phase that any piece of technology goes through is hardware and software
service to humans
way of life for humans
all of these
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421 Today's personal computers can not do any calculations
do only a few calculations per second
do millions of calculations per second
none of these
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422 Today's personal computers use
less electricity than ENIAC
more electricity than ENIAC
are portable and don't need electricity at all
none of these
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422 Futurists predict that monitors will be replaced with
flat-panel displays
OCR
CD-ROMs
CRTs
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423 Parallel processing will increase the of future computers.
cost
speed
size
user-friendliness
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424 Gallium arsenide may replace the now common in computer chips.
oxygen
nitrogen
silicon
argon
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424 Some predict that computer networks will become impossible to use
wireless
much slower
extinct
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425 Today's WIMP user interface will be replaced by one that features robots
artificial life, active badges, and word processors
information slavery
speech recognition and synthesis, 3-D images, and knowledge
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426 are software programs designed to ask questions and respond to commands.
Intelligent agents
Nanobots
Flash memories
Xerox PARCs
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428 The miniaturization of machines is known as biotechnology
virtual reality
MIPS
microtechnology
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434
Machines that are built atom by atom are called
smart pills
nanomachines
microagents
none of these
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428 A futuristic intelligent software entity that "lives" in a computer and acts as a digital secretary.
Agent
Android
Bot
Hand-held computer
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428
Experimental synthetic (software or hardware) organisms that behave in some significant ways like natural living systems.
Artificial life
Bots
Chips
Spiders
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435 A software robot that exhibits many of the characteristics of a software agent.
Bot
Microtechnology
Bit
Crawler
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428 A type of memory chip that can be erased and rewritten like RAM but that retains its contents without electrical current like ROM.
Flash memory
Flash session
Silicon chip
Pentium chip
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423 The framework that is laid first so future economic activity can take advantage of it.
Infrastructure
Outline
Exoskeleton
Critical success factor
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425 A measure of CPU speed.
MIPS (millions of instructions per second)
BIPS (billions of instructions per second)
Dots per inch (DPI)
KPBS (kilobytes per second)
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422 The manufacture of nanomachines.
Nanotechnology
Micromachinery
Assembly language
Telephony
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434 It is predicted that this will replace the information economy around the year 2020.
Internet Economy
Industrial Economy
Technology economy
Bio-economy
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