CMN 150V S20 Midterm (1-5) Questions and Answers Already Passed

CMN 150V S20 Midterm (1-5) Questions and Answers Already Passed 1-02: What paradigm underlies "computational science"? The digital revolution 1-02: Which is true about the world's info storage capacity? In the late 1980's, < 1% of all technologically stored info was digital, and now > 99% is digital 1-02: If we would take 5ZB of info and store it in books, how far would the pile reach? Many times from the Earth to the Sun 1-02: What does it mean that the amount of technologically stored information "doubles" every 2-3 years? Each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have accumulated since the very beginning 1-02: What changed in the announcement of the papacy from 2005 to 2013? More people document social reality nowadays 1-02: The DNA of all human cells stored ____ info than digital technology in 2014. less 1-02: What do evolutionary theorists say about the "Major Transitions in Evolution?" Every time we (life) came up with a new way of processing information, a major transition happened 1-02: From this social evolutionary perspective, the digital and the biological are merged when: Society as a whole has become indispensably dependent on digital technology 1-02: What's the difference between his two online courses? The other one is about how digital tech changes society and this one is about how digital tech changes knowledge production 1-04: The first wave of scientific advancements focused on: A small number of interrelated variables 1-04: The second wave of scientific advancements focused on: Averages of many (rather unknown) variables 1-04: Which of the following statements is NOT true? What we here called problems of: Complexity is modeled with simple averages of a small number of interacting variables 1-04: Why is it limiting to study society with the dominant scientific methods from the 19th and 20th century? Societies contain more than 2-3 variables and are too complex to be modeled with aggregate averages 1-05: When doing social science, we study what level of abstraction? Networks of people and their tech 1-05: How and in reference to what did he use the word "emergence"? (pyramid of sciences) At each of these levels, new rules/laws "emerge" that can be studied 1-06: Who does the Anteater communicate with in this metaphor? (referring to social emergence) An ant colony called "Aunt Hillary" (a collective intelligence "emerging" from many levels (think science pyramid) originally from ants) 1-06: What baffled philosophers like Kant and sociologists like Durkheim? How predictable social patterns emerge from a bunch of individual free will 1-06: What was a main distinction made by both economists like Smith and political scientists like Rousseau? The distinction between: The intention of the individual and collective intentions of society 1-06: What did the eminent social scientist Karl Marx mean when he talked about what others called the "basic metaphysical principle