What is the technological imperative?

What is the technological imperative?
 
  a. The requirement that some corporations are making for employees to use their own technology
  b. The need that young people, in particular, have to own only the very newest forms of technology
  c. The need to test each new technology in an attempt to avoid unanticipated negative consequences
  d. The reality that once a technology becomes available it is very difficult to avoid using it

Question 2

The idea that once a technology is available, it becomes difficult to avoid using it is called:
 
  a. a normal accident
  b. the technological advantage.
  c. the technological imperative.
  d. public technology.

Question 3

According to your text, all of the following are possible benefits of new technology except it allows us:
 
  a. to learn more
  b. to participate more fully in the political process
  c. to work from home
  d. more time with friends and family

Question 4

According to your text, the long-term effect of information technology on society will depend as much on __________ as it does on the technological capabilities of computers and telecommunications.
 
  a. the attitudes of consumers
  b. social institutions
  c. advances in energy production
  d. advances in medicine

Question 5

One survey of 1000 major corporations found that:
 
  a. most avoided electronic surveillance of their employees fearing it would be an invasion of their privacy.
  b. only a very few practiced electronic surveillance of their employees.
  c. about two-thirds practiced electronic surveillance of their employees.
  d. most were not aware that electronic surveillance of employees was a possibility.