CMN 150V: Midterm #1 question n answers graded A+ 2024/2025

CMN 150V: Midterm #1What is the difference between first and second part of the course? - correct answer 1st looks at static snapshots of society 2nd looks at changing dynamics What paradigm underlines "computational science"? - correct answer the digital revolution In the late 1980s, how much of all technology stored info was digital and what percentage is it now? - correct answer less than 1% -> 99% What does it mean that the amount of technologically stored info "doubles" every 2-3 years? - correct answer each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have accumulated since the very beginning What more is being documented? - correct answer social reality Did the dna of all human cells store more or less info than digital tech in 2014? - correct answer less What do evolutionary theorists say about the "Major transitions in evolutions"? - correct answer every time we (life) came up with a new way of processing info, a major transition happened From this social evolutionary perspective, the digital and the biological are merged when... - correct answer society as a whole has become indispensably dependent on digital technology The Scientific Method - correct answer empirical(Darwin) theoretical(Einstein) analytical The 1st wave of scientific advancements focused on... - correct answer a small number of interrelated varaibles