Time's Harvest, Fall 1997

Quiz 2

Quiz 2 covers Society and Technological Change. Answers are due by 5 PM Monday, December 1. You can turn in your answers via e-mail, letter, or FAX. In whatever form you use, your answers must be marked as being sent by 5 PM Monday, December 1. "Being marked" means e-mail message time, postmark for mail, or FAX date/time at top of page.

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1. For Society and Technological Change,
   1. Volti does not feel that a technology is simply the tool or the machine or the technique. What does he say it takes to make something a technology?
   2. List some examples of this from the book.
      
2. For Society and Technological Change,
   1. Volti describes technologies as taking time to mature and develop. Describe three examples of this. For each example, how many years was the development process.
   2. Volti also describes cases where the development process was not smooth and continuous, but had false starts and interruptions. Describe two examples of this.
   3. Are there examples in the book of technologies that take very short times to develop? Say, a year or less?