STS Final Exam Questions with 100%
Correct Answers
promiscuos utility - Answer-a tool can either be used well or badly
cannot guarantee affect or usage
impact of tools not calculated
technological somnobulism - Answer--living in a dream where we do not want to wake up
-dangerous bc dream so real we do not want to scare them
-do people want to wake up from dream
penicillin - Answer--tech innovation show influence of social motivation
-influenced by war
put more read passage
complementary technology - Answer-small parts of a technology which work together to make a more
efficient technology
ex: camera, chemical emulsions, paper
,18th century - Answer-invention of progress, Enlightenment time period
19th century - Answer-invention of invention
20th century - Answer-redefinition of progress
Enlightenment - Answer--enlighten all aspects of the human condition
-focus on moral and material betterment
-gift of the 18th century
Robert Boyle goal - Answer--desired to provide information in science which was easily accessible to the
public
-understood his place in the world and took advantage and educated lower classes
ambivalence - Answer-the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
-fear and love view
picturesque - Answer--purposeful manipulation of the world, way of looking at the world with my
choosing
-above nature and reality to contain force and power
-contain force of the world
-makes us feel comfortable
tech sublime - Answer--feeling of God's work inside ourselves
ex Mount Rushmore, electricity to a point
, sublime - Answer--unable to control the sublime , encounter it
-perfection, viewing God's work
-dread and reverence (feeling of fear and awe)
-encounter something so magnificent we face reality realizing we are small and temporary in this world
ex: the Grand Canyon, Oceans
What does Sony Walkman illustrate - Answer--we do not know what we want
-social motivation basis of technological development
-technology is sometimes used beyond its purpose
lack of philosophy in tech - Answer--people do not try to understand philosophy on tech even though
they should
-no one thinks of consequence
"forms of life" - Answer--world the way we expect it
-what humans were born into
"mode of life" - Answer--how we express who we are
-what we do makes us who we are
-identity connected to behaviors
-character
Postman's Six Questions - Answer--What is the problem to which this technology is a solution?
-Whose problem is it?
-Which people and what institutions might be seriously harmed by this technological solution?
-What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?
Correct Answers
promiscuos utility - Answer-a tool can either be used well or badly
cannot guarantee affect or usage
impact of tools not calculated
technological somnobulism - Answer--living in a dream where we do not want to wake up
-dangerous bc dream so real we do not want to scare them
-do people want to wake up from dream
penicillin - Answer--tech innovation show influence of social motivation
-influenced by war
put more read passage
complementary technology - Answer-small parts of a technology which work together to make a more
efficient technology
ex: camera, chemical emulsions, paper
,18th century - Answer-invention of progress, Enlightenment time period
19th century - Answer-invention of invention
20th century - Answer-redefinition of progress
Enlightenment - Answer--enlighten all aspects of the human condition
-focus on moral and material betterment
-gift of the 18th century
Robert Boyle goal - Answer--desired to provide information in science which was easily accessible to the
public
-understood his place in the world and took advantage and educated lower classes
ambivalence - Answer-the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
-fear and love view
picturesque - Answer--purposeful manipulation of the world, way of looking at the world with my
choosing
-above nature and reality to contain force and power
-contain force of the world
-makes us feel comfortable
tech sublime - Answer--feeling of God's work inside ourselves
ex Mount Rushmore, electricity to a point
, sublime - Answer--unable to control the sublime , encounter it
-perfection, viewing God's work
-dread and reverence (feeling of fear and awe)
-encounter something so magnificent we face reality realizing we are small and temporary in this world
ex: the Grand Canyon, Oceans
What does Sony Walkman illustrate - Answer--we do not know what we want
-social motivation basis of technological development
-technology is sometimes used beyond its purpose
lack of philosophy in tech - Answer--people do not try to understand philosophy on tech even though
they should
-no one thinks of consequence
"forms of life" - Answer--world the way we expect it
-what humans were born into
"mode of life" - Answer--how we express who we are
-what we do makes us who we are
-identity connected to behaviors
-character
Postman's Six Questions - Answer--What is the problem to which this technology is a solution?
-Whose problem is it?
-Which people and what institutions might be seriously harmed by this technological solution?
-What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?
