01:198:170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Seamonkey, Shareware, Foldit
16 May 2018
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Social Implications of Information Technology
Positive, negative changes of IT
●Social interactions extended well beyond experiences that our parents and grandparents could
enjoy
Crowdsourcing, examples
●Refers to solving a problem or achieving a goal by combining the contributions of a large,
unconstrained volunteer population
●Ex: Wikipedia
○Goal is to build a database of all knowledge
○Gigantic global effort
●Ex: Be a Martian
○Project where volunteers help NASA by tagging images from the Mars rovers
○Wide variety of skill sets
●Ex: Foldit
○Teams compete to fold protein
●Ex: Civic Participation-- Freerice
○Learning and donating
○Given English word and 4 possible definitions; picking the right one donates 10 grains of
rice
●Ex: Kickstarter
Electronic Payments
Intellectual Property
●All human creations are intellectual property to distinguish them from real estate, pets, cars,
and other stuff that can be owned
Software
●Software licenses give you the use of the software, but the ownership remains w the company
marketing it
●You're actually leasing the software
●Shareware:
○Software that is usually distributed over the internet
○Can download free copy, and you can copy it and give it to friends
○So can try it out and if like it, you pay the person who created it
●Software from Microsoft and Adobe is proprietary
, meaning the vendors keep the source cods
(program) private
○When u get a copy to install, you receive only the binary code for ur computer model
and operating system
Open Source Software
●is software for which the program is publicly available
○Ex: Firefox, SeaMonkey, Web, MozBraille and other browers are built are top of it
○As a result, personal copies of Firefox are free
○How do these ppl make money, then?
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Social interactions extended well beyond experiences that our parents and grandparents could enjoy. Refers to solving a problem or achieving a goal by combining the contributions of a large, unconstrained volunteer population. Goal is to build a database of all knowledge. Project where volunteers help nasa by tagging images from the mars rovers. Given english word and 4 possible definitions; picking the right one donates 10 grains of rice. All human creations are intellectual property to distinguish them from real estate, pets, cars, and other stuff that can be owned. Software licenses give you the use of the software, but the ownership remains w the company marketing it. Software that is usually distributed over the internet. Can download free copy, and you can copy it and give it to friends. So can try it out and if like it, you pay the person who created it.
