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Technology in Action

Eighteenth Edition
Global Edition

Chapter 1
The Impact of Technology
in a Changing World

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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)

1.1 Describe various technological tools being used to


impact national and global issues.
1.2 Describe various global social issues that are being
affected by technology.
1.3 Describe how technology is changing how and why we
connect and collaborate with others.
1.4 Summarize how technology has impacted the way we
choose and consume products and services.
1.5 Characterize computer literacy and explain why it is
important to be computer literate.
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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)

1.6 Describe artificial intelligence systems and explain their


main goals.
1.7 Describe how artificial intelligence and other emerging
technologies are important in many careers.
1.8 Define ethics and describe various ethical systems.
1.9 Describe influences on the development of your
personal ethics.
1.10 Present examples of how technology creates ethical
challenges.

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Technology in a Global Society
Impact of Tools of Modern Technology (Objective 1.1)

• Social networking tools enable groups to connect and


exchange ideas
• Crisis-mapping tools collect and map information

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Technology in a Global Society (1 of 2)
Global Issues (Objective 1.2)

• Health care
– Scientific visualization tools help scientists develop
antibodies tests
– Computationally intense modeling software helps
increase the pace of vaccine discovery
• The Environment
– Data could alert scientists to new trends

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Technology in a Global Society (2 of 2)
Global Issues (Objective 1.2)

• The Digital Divide


– Gap exists between
levels of Internet
access and availability
of technical tools
– Prevents use of all
minds to solve
planet’s problems

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Technology Connects Us with Others (1 of 2)
Technology Impacts How and Why We Connect and Collaborate (Objective 1.3)

• Collaborating for the benefit of others


– Web 2.0
▪ Allows easy content contribution
▪ Facilitates easy connections with others
– Cognitive Surplus
▪ Combination of leisure time and tools to be
creative

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Technology Connects Us with Others (2 of 2)
Technology Impacts How and Why We Connect and Collaborate (Objective 1.3)

• Connecting through business


– Support others’ dreams
– Crowdfunding asks for small donations from a large
number of people

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Technology Connects Us with Others (1 of 2)
Technology Impacts How We Consume (Objective 1.4)

• Marketing:
– Influencers
– Crowdsourcing

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Technology Connects Us with Others (2 of 2)
Technology Impacts How We Consume (Objective 1.4)

• Sharing economy
– ZipCar
– Citi Bike
– Collaborative
consumption

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The Importance of Computer Literacy (1 of 2)
Computer Literacy (Objective 1.5)

• Computer literacy
– Understand capabilities and limitations of computers
– Know how to use safely and efficiently

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The Importance of Computer Literacy (2 of 2)
Computer Literacy (Objective 1.5)

• Computer literacy
– Avoiding hackers and viruses
– Protecting your privacy
– Understanding the real risks
– Using the web wisely
– Avoiding online annoyances
– Ability to maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot a
computer
– Keeping up to date

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Artificial Intelligence (1 of 3)
Artificial Intelligence Basics (Objective 1.6)

• Intelligence—ability to acquire and apply knowledge and


skills
– Experiences, reasoning, problem solving, perception,
and using language
• Artificial intelligence—systems or machines that perform
tasks usually associated with human intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence (2 of 3)
Artificial Intelligence Basics (Objective 1.6)

• Goal in 1950s was to create a machine that could think


like a human
• Central goals of AI
– Natural language processing (NLP)
– Perception
– Knowledge representation
– Planning
– Problem solving
– Learning

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Artificial Intelligence (3 of 3)
Artificial Intelligence Basics (Objective 1.6)

• Major developments contributing to functional AI systems


– Expert systems
– Artificial neural networks
– Advances in machine learning
▪ Deep learning systems capable of learning from
mistakes

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Working With Artificial Intelligence and Other
Information Technologies (1 of 6)
The Impact of Technology on Your Career (Objective 1.7)

• Retail
– Data mining
▪ Process of
searching huge
amounts of data
for patterns
▪ Respond to
consumer
buying/usage
patterns

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Working With Artificial Intelligence and Other
Information Technologies (2 of 6)
The Impact of Technology on Your Career (Objective 1.7)

• Banking
– Uses AI to help spot fraud
• Transportation
– Autopilots on commercial airplanes
– Autonomous vehicles
• Robots and Embodied Agents

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Working With Artificial Intelligence and Other
Information Technologies (3 of 6)
The Impact of Technology on Your Career (Objective 1.7)

• Education
– Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) assist students
with their individualized learning plans
– Speed up the grading process
– Plagiarism checkers

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Working With Artificial Intelligence and Other
Information Technologies (4 of 6)
The Impact of Technology on Your Career (Objective 1.7)

• Law Enforcement
– Computers used in
cars
– Facial reconstruction
– Computer forensics

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Working With Artificial Intelligence and Other
Information Technologies (5 of 6)
The Impact of Technology on Your Career (Objective 1.7)

• Medicine
– Help doctors diagnose unfamiliar conditions
– Being integrated into patient information systems
– Used to design and construct prosthetic devices

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Working With Artificial Intelligence and Other
Information Technologies (6 of 6)
The Impact of Technology on Your Career (Objective 1.7)

• Psychology
– MACH—My Automated
Conversation CoacH
– Affective computing

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Ethical Computing
Defining Ethics (Objective 1.8)

• Ethics: the study of morals and specific moral choices


made
• Laws: formal, written standards designed to apply to
everyone
• Unethical behavior: not conforming to approved
standards
• Amoral behavior: no sense of right and wrong

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Ethical Computing
Personal Ethics (Objective 1.9)

• Determining Your
Personal Ethics
– Describe yourself
– List key principles you
believe in
– Identify external
influences
– Consider why
– Prepare statement of
values

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Ethical Computing (1 of 3)
Ethics and Technology (Objective 1.10)

• Intellectual Property
– Work that is the result of someone’s creativity and
knowledge
– Protected by copyrights, patents, and trademarks
• Privacy
– Control and privacy of information will continue to be
a fine balancing act

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Ethical Computing (2 of 3)
Ethics and Technology (Objective 1.10)

• Social Justice
– Predictive policing to prevent crime
– Military and government secrets and previously
secret documents (WikiLeaks)
• Liability
– 3D printing can lead to quality control issues
• Censorship
– Global differences in website blocking

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Ethical Computing (3 of 3)
Ethics and Technology (Objective 1.10)

• Social Activism
– Hacktivism is using computers and computer
networks in a subversive way
– Often manifests as denial-of-service attacks
• Automated Robotic Machinery
– Self-driving cars
– Choose between sets of bad choices

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