CS213 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Histology, Langdon Winner, Industrial Revolution
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Progress trap : when a technology that helps us thrive (in some way) progress to the point where it makes us worse off. Ex: the atomic bomb, hunting, agriculture, and the industrial revolution, petrol, medicine, religion. Gordon e. moore- the number of components on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. Niklaus wirth software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. Roy amara, we tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short run and underestimate the effect effect in the long run. Mike godwin as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving nazis or hitler approaches 1. Rule 34_ if it exists, there is porn of it. Social and pseudo laws of technology, like real laws of nature, may still have an effect. Beliefs, even false beliefs about they way the world or must be guide and limit human action.
