gadget quiz 4

1. (T/F) Lanier says cybernetic totalism has no place, period.

2. How does the culture of computationalism regard people? How does Lanier regard people?

3. What is logical positivism? How & why is it making a comeback in Silicon Valley?

4. What does Lanier think we do to ourselves when we attribute intelligence and consciousness to our software tools?

5. What encounter has refined personhood and created humanity as we know it?

6. What huge, unheralded technological innovation occurred in the last decade and promises to transform our ideas of privacy?

7. Why is the olfactory part of the brain an "Old Factory"? What does it have to do with swearing?

8. Is Lanier optimistic about automatic language translation?

9. What might be the point of being well-spoken?

10. How does the expanding Internet Cloud threaten linguistic expression?