Exam 9: Emerging Trends and Technologies: Business, People, and Technology Tomorrow

In today's technology-based world,you give up privacy when you surf the Web or register on a Web site.

Which of the following refers to a system that matches one's spoken phonemes to a phoneme sequence stored in an acoustic model database?

Which of the following best defines disintermediation?

In a virtual reality system,a(n)_____ is an input device that captures and records the movement of your feet as you turn in different directions.

Which of the following is a drawback of personal software-as-a-service (personal SaaS)?

Multi-state CPUs work with information represented in more than just two states,probably 10 states with each state representing a digit between ____.

The most common applications of virtual reality are found in the _____ industry.

_____ is a discipline that seeks to control matter at the atomic and sub-atomic levels for the purpose of building devices on the same small scale.

RFID uses a(n)_____ in a tag or label to store information.

Which of the following is an example of a physiological innovation?

Which of the following refers to the process of countries being defined by the extent to which they have only limited access to and use of technology?

____,when inserted into the human body,have in certain cases proven to block pain for people who suffer severe spinal injuries and help partially blind people see better.

Which of the following is an input device that captures and records the shape and movement of your hand and fingers and the strength of their movements?

Several airline pilots are trained in flight simulators which recreate the environment of actual airplane cockpits.Using such technology,pilots are trained to respond to various conditions that they might encounter while on the job,such as turbulence,engine failure,bad weather,and the like.Flight simulators are real-world applications of ____.

All newly issued U.S.passports now contain a(n)_____ chip in the cover of the passport,which contains all your passport information.

ASR allows one to speak in a normal voice and thus supports physiological interaction.

_____ refers to the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it.

Which of the following is a standard for transmitting information in the form of short-range radio waves over distances of up to 30 feet?

Which of the following refers to a special 3-D virtual reality room that can display images of people and objects located in other similar environments all over the world?

Which of the following uses technology to add the sense of touch to an environment that previously only had visual and textual elements?