CMN 150V S20 Midterm (1-5) Questions and Answers Already Passed

1-02: What paradigm underlies "computational science"? The digital revolution 1-02: Which is true about the world's info storage capacity? In the late 1980's, < 1% of all technologically stored info was digital, and now > 99% is digital 1-02: If we would take 5ZB of info and store it in books, how far would the pile reach? Many times from the Earth to the Sun 1-02: What does it mean that the amount of technologically stored information "doubles" every 2-3 years? Each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have accumulated since the very beginning 1-02: What changed in the announcement of the papacy from 2005 to 2013? More people document social reality nowadays 1-02: The DNA of all human cells stored ____ info than digital technology in 2014. less1-02: What do evolutionary theorists say about the "Major Transitions in Evolution?" Every time we (life) came up with a new way of processing information, a major transition happened 1-02: From this social evolutionary perspective, the digital and the biological are merged when: Society as a whole has become indispensably dependent on digital technology 1-02: What's the difference between his two online courses? The other one is about how digital tech changes society and this one is about how digital tech changes knowledge production 1-04: The first wave of scientific advancements focused on: A small number of interrelated variables 1-04: The second wave of scientific advancements focused on: Averages of many (rather unknown) variables 1-04: Which of the following statements is NOT true? What we here called problems of: Complexity is modeled with simple averages of a small number of interacting variables1-04: Why is it limiting to study s