Exam 12: Global Trends on OLC

Which of the following is not one of the technologies shaping our future?

People in undeveloped countries are living longer.

Describe one technology trend discussed in the text and identify the potential business impacts related to the trend.

What does 50 percent of what a student learns about innovative technology in their freshman year of college become by their senior year?

All of today's technical knowledge will represent only __________ percent of the knowledge that will be available in 2050.

Which of the following is a potential business impact from autonomic computing?

The growth in information industries is creating a knowledge- _________ global society.

Digital paper is any paper that is optimized for any type of _________ printing.

Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers is known as trend ____________.

What percentage will all of today's technical knowledge represent in 2050?

Digital ink, digital paper, autonomic computing, ________, and alternative energy sources are the technologies discussed in the text as having the potential to change our world, our future, and our lives.

All of the following jobs will be increasingly performed by robots, except:

Trend projection is the examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.

Angola is one of the countries that is expected to have one of the largest increases in population between 2000 and __________.

Why is the global economy becoming more integrated?

The study of historical events in order to anticipate the outcome of current developments is called _________ analysis.

Which of the following is not a potential business impact from people in developed countries living longer?

Computer _________ occurs when a complex system, such as the U.S. economy, is modeled by means of mathematical equations and different scenarios are run against the model to determine "what-if" analysis.

The world's population will double in the next 20 years.

Trend ____________ is the examination of a trend to identify its natures, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.