Time's Harvest, Fall 1997
AGS 334 "Big Picture" Questions
for Final
Last updated: 12/5/97
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NOTE: The information below on the Final Exam is only slightly changed from the posting
on Miscellaneous Items. If you read and understood that posting, there is nothing new
here.
AGS 334: Final Exam
The Final will be cumulative, based on:
- Quiz Questions for The Road Ahead (already distributed on course Web Site, and
still there)
- Quiz Questions for In the Age of the Smart Machine (already distributed on coups
Web Site, and still there)
- Quiz Questions for Society and Technological Change (already distributed on coups
Web Site, and still there)
- Quiz Questions for Being digital (already distributed on coups Web Site, and
still there)
- "Big Picture" questions for The Third Wave (already distributed on the
course Web Site, and again below).
So you will have all of the questions for the Final in advance.
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And
-- the Big Picture Questions will be answered in Teams. That's right. The first part of
the Final will be individual. The second part will Team. The schedule will be:
- 6:00 - 7:00 PM -- Individual work on Part I
- 7:00 - 8:00 PM -- Team work on Part II
- 9:00 - ? -- Individual work on Part I, if you didn't
finish earlier
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Taking tests:
Two simple rules for taking tests:
- ALWAYS check that you have answered all of the questions. If nothing else, check them
off on the exam sheet.
- NEVER leave a question blank (unless some fraction of wrong answers is deducted from the
grade to discourage guessing).
"Big Picture" Questions for Final
In The Third Wave, Toffler establishes future developments, and then
often explores their implications in later chapters. Each effect can become a new
development, and therefore a new cause. For The Third Wave, describe the connections
from the earlier chapters to the later chapters in the sequences listed below:
- Sequence:
- Chapter 13 - De-Massifying the Media
- Chapter 22 - The Crack-Up of the Nation
- Chapter 27 - The Political Mausoleum
- Chapter 28 - Twenty-First Century Democracy
- Sequence:
- Chapter 4 - Breaking the Code
- Chapter 15 - Beyond Mass Production
- Chapter 18 - The Corporate Identity Crisis
- Chapter 19 - Decoding the New Rules
- Sequence:
- Chapter 2 - The Architecture of Civilization
- Chapter 15 - Beyond Mass Production
- Chapter 20 - The Rise of the Prosumer
- Chapter 26 - The Personality of the Future
- Sequence:
- Chapter 16 - The Electronic Cottage
- Chapter 17 - Families of the Future
- Chapter 21 - The Mental Maelstrom
- Chapter 25 - The New Psycho-Sphere
That is, what aspect of the first Chapter in the sequence carries over to the second
Chapter to cause a new effect, which then carries over to the third Chapter, and so on.
EXAMPLE (briefly):
- The Blip Culture in Chapter 13 results in fragmented information and a feeling of chaos
- In Chapter 14, each of us will be able to use the computer to assemble interesting blips
into a meaningful personal pattern
- In Chapter 27, "The Collapse of Consensus" draws the conclusion that, since we
will be choosing our blips individually, that we will choose different blips, and will not
agree on any given situation, and consensus will be impossible to achieve, and democracy
will not work as well as it used to, if it works at all.
Part II (Team Part) of the Final Exam will be a selection from these items, with some
choice allowed.