Knowledge and Technology Flashcards
(22 cards)
To what extent are technologies, such as the microscope and telescope, merely extensions to the human senses, or do they introduce radically new ways of seeing the world?
M&T
How might technology exacerbate or mitigate unequal access, and divides in our access, to knowledge?
Ethics
Do social networks reinforce our existing perspective rather than boosting our engagement with diverse perspectives?
Perspective
What is the difference between computational thinking, algorithmic thinking, and critical thinking
M&T
How has technology had an impact on how we browse, search, and filter data and information? Can algorithms be biased?
Perspective
Does the existence of the deep web influence our view on whether some knowledge should remain secret or largely inaccessible?
Ethics
How are online or virtual communities similar to/different from “traditional communities of knowers?
Perspective
How does technology extend or transform different modes of human cognition and communication?
M&T
What is the difference between data, information, and knowledge?
Scope
Have technological developments had the greatest impact on what we know, how we know, or how we store knowledge?
Scope
Is big data creating a new cognitive paradigm?
Perspective
Is AI restricted to processing information or can it also allow machines to acquire knowledge
M&T
What impact has the fact that English is the primary language of the internet had on knowledge sharing?
Perspective
How has technology had an impact on collective memory and how knowledge is preserved?
Scope
Does technology allow knowledge to reside outside of human knowers?
Scope
Are there situations where ignorance/lack of knowledge is an excuse for unethical behavior?
Ethics
How do the tools that we use shape the knowledge that we produce?
M&T
How does computation help people to process data and information to gain knowledge?
M&T
In what sense, if any, can a machine be said to know something?
Scope
Should we hold people responsible for the applications of technologies they develop/create?
Ethics
Does technology just allow us to arrnge existing knowledge in different ways, or is this arrangement itself knowledge in some sense?
Scope
To what extent is the internet changing what it means to know something?
Scope
