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Blown to Bits Chapter 1 Vocabularybits - correct answer ✔zeros and ones that make up cell phone
conversations, bank records, and other forms of electronic data.
ping - correct answer ✔a few bits that indicate "Here I am!"
The explosion of Bits and Everything else - correct answer ✔The digital
explosion is changing the world, just like printing once did.
Once information is on a computer, it can replicate and move all over the
world in a second.
The digital explosion is not harmless. Photos of people can be sent anywhere.
Credit card information is not secure. "Sealed" court records are no longer
really sealed. In China, the government is able to better control the
information its citizens receive, and monitor their behavior.
The digital explosion contains opportunities and risks. It is destroying
assumptions about personal privacy, identity, and who controls our lives.
The Koans of Bits - correct answer ✔Bits can travel almost instantaneously,
and they take very little space to store.
Claude Shannon - correct answer ✔was the first to use the term, "bit," as the
natural unit of information in his paper, "A Mathematical Theory of
Communication," published in 1948.
"Koans" - correct answer ✔are truths that are paradoxes, oversimplifications,
and over-generalizations.
Koan 1: It's All Just Bits - correct answer ✔Computers are designed to store
bits. Everything on the computer (files, photographs, etc.) is an illusion
, created by a programmer. Telephone calls are just bits. The Internet is
designed to handle just bits.
The law does not treat all bits the same. There are "common carriage" rules
for voice, but not for text messages. Everyone, including controversial
organizations, is allowed to have a phone number, but not everyone is
allowed to send text messages over a network.
non-exclusive - correct answer ✔Economists would say that uncontrolled bits
are.(once some people have them, it is difficult to keep them from others)
non-rivalrous - correct answer ✔(when others get them, the person who
originally had them doesn't have any less).
Koan 2: Perfection is Normal - correct answer ✔When books were copied by
hand, there were lots of errors.
Digital copies are perfect. They do not deteriorate from original to copy.
Computers and networks do break down. If the power goes out, nothing
works.
There are error detection and correction mechanisms built into computer
networks. It is rare that mistakes are allowed to go through uncorrected.
Digital copies of music and movies are identical to the originals.
"intellectual property" - correct answer ✔This has caused the music and
movie industries to threaten people who copy the originals and steal.
Koan 3: There is Want in the Midst of Plenty - correct answer ✔Information
that is not online, or that is stored on obsolete devices, is being lost.
Online search engines have replaced looking up information in books, or
asking people. Businesses must appear prominently in search results in order
to survive.
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