Final Review Part 2

Question 1

What does MIC stand for?

Answer 1

Military Industrial Complex

Question 2

What is the Military Industrial Complex?

Answer 2

Single largest sector of global investment, which relates to the research and development, production, distribution of military armaments and hardware by states and industry.

Question 3

How is creativity different today?

Answer 3

No longer about art for art’s sake. As a society, we have begun to idolize creative types that utilize technology in order to turn a profit (so called tech-gurus like Bill Gates/Mark Zuckerberg).

Question 4

What was the central argument in Ungar’s reading Misplaced Metaphor?

Answer 4

We live in a knowledge economy, but the metaphor that we live in a knowledge society isn’t very true. He argues that we are in fact becoming knowledge-adverse with the specialization of knowledge required to be successful in the workplace.

Question 5

According to the last chapter of Flew and Smith, should the internet be a human right?

Answer 5

This is not a question the authors answer, but they want the reader to consider our reliance and the importance of the internet/ICTs.