Exam 9: Emerging Trends and Technologies

What types of activities commonly occur in an e-society?

In virtual reality, what must the system capture before it can process needed information?

Holographic storage devices store information in a two-dimensional surface.

_____ is a standard for transmitting information in the form of radio waves over distances up to about several miles.

What term refers to your ability to download audio and video files into a handheld, portable device?

Technology cannot improve the human condition.

If you were sitting in a CAVE and were able to shake your partner's hand, what technology would you need to feel like you were shaking their hand?

What is the term used when intermediate business partners in traditional distribution channels are bypassed?

Which of the following technologies allows you to send voice communications over the Internet and avoid the toll charges traditionally incurred by consumers?

One advantage of a(n) _____ over a UPC is it can be tied to a date of expiration.

A headset is a combined input and output device that (1) captures and records the movement of your head and (2) contains a screen that covers your entire field of vision and displays various views of an environment based on your movements.

A(n) _____ CPU can process letters and special characters without converting them to their binary equivalents.

Multi-state CPUs work with information represented by more than 2 states, where each state can represent a digit between 0 and 9. This requires the CPU to do more computations than before.

What kind of interface is Wii?

_____ is an e-commerce model in which a consumer communicates through a business on the Internet and directly provides product specification to a factory which then ships directly to the consumer.

What future technology may be used in livestock to help identify and track them and, therefore, protect humans from potential diseases?

If you wanted your children to play games with others who had the same gaming device but you wanted to ensure that people outside their play area could not tap into the game, what wireless device would you need?

A headset is an input device that captures and records the shape and movement of your hand and fingers and the strength of your hand and finger movements.

A(n) _____ such as a CAVE can display objects in true three-dimensional form.

When you are using a Web-based server to run applications, what issues should you be concerned with?