Deck 32: B: Extension: A Global Trends

Question 1

People in undeveloped countries are living longer.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What is trend projection?

A)When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future.
B)A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.
C)Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers.
D)Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations, and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The ambient digital experience is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Augmented reality is a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves from one place to another.

Question 5

Which of the following is not one of the top reasons organizations should study trends?

A)Generate current revenue
B)Gain confidence
C)Generate ideas
D)Beat the competition

Question 6

What is historical analysis?

A)When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future.
B)A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.
C)Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers.
D)Historical events are studied to anticipate the outcome of current developments.

Question 7

Real-time adaptive security is the network security model necessary to accommodate the emergence of multiple perimeters and moving parts on the network and increasingly advanced threats targeting enterprises.

Question 8

The world's population will double in the next 20 years.

Question 9

All of the following are scientific methods organizations use to anticipate, forecast, and assess the future, except

A)Computer simulation.
B)Historical analysis.
C)Trend analysis.
D)Trend simulation.

Question 10

What is trend analysis?

A)When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future.
B)A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.
C)Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers.
D)Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations, and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis.

Question 11

Augmented reality is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it.

Question 12

The ambient digital experience is a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves from one place to another.

Question 13

What is trend monitoring?

A)When numerical data are available, a trend can be plotted to display changes through time and into the future.
B)A trend is examined to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.
C)Trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector are carefully monitored, watched, and reported to key decision makers.
D)Complex systems can be modeled by means of mathematical equations, and different scenarios can be run against the model to determine "what if" analysis.

Question 14

Trend projection is the examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.

Question 15

The digital mesh, smart machines, and the new IT reality are the categories of technologies shaping our future.

Question 16

Trend analysis is the examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.

Question 17

Organizations anticipate, forecast, and assess future events using a variety of rational, scientific methods including:

A)Trend analysis
B)Trend monitoring
C)Trend projection
D)All of these

Question 18

Biological 3D printing includes the printing of skin and organs and is progressing from theory to reality.

Question 19

The digital mesh, smart mechanics, and dirty data are the categories of technologies shaping our future.

Question 20

Autonomic computing is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system.

Question 21

Which of the following is not a potential business impact created by the growth in information industries?

A)Top managers must be computer-literate.
B)Knowledge workers are generally higher paid.
C)Entry-level positions will require less education.
D)Downsizing will continue.

Question 22

All of the following jobs will be increasingly performed by robots, except

A)Mundane commercial and service jobs.
B)Environmentally dangerous jobs.
C)The repair of inaccessible equipment such as space stations.
D)Jobs performed by scientists, engineers, and technicians.

Question 23

What builds-layer by layer in an additive process-a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model?

A)Information of everything
B)3D printing
C)Machine learning
D)Internet of things

Question 24

How long does a product's entire life cycle last today?

A)4 weeks
B)40 weeks
C)4 months
D)4 years

Question 25

What does 50 percent of what a student learns about innovative technology in their freshman year of college become by their senior year?

A)Obsolete
B)Revised
C)Taken for granted
D)All of these

Question 26

Which trend has the following potential business impact? Companies must take an active role in helping their employees balance their time at work with their family lives and need for leisure.

A)The global economy is becoming more integrated.
B)Pace of technological innovation is increasing.
C)The economy and society are dominated by technology.
D)Time is becoming one of the world's most precious commodities.

Question 27

What kind of society is being created by the growth in information industries?

A)Knowledge-independent global society.
B)Knowledge-dependent global society.
C)Knowledge-independent local society.
D)Knowledge-dependent local society.

Question 28

What is a concept that extends the Internet of Things emphasis on machine-to-machine communications to describe a more complex system that also encompasses people?

A)Information of Everything
B)3D printing
C)Machine learning
D)Virtual reality

Question 29

What occurs when complex systems, such as the U.S.economy, can be modeled by means of mathematical equations, and different scenarios can be run against the model to conduct "what if" analysis?

A)Information of everything
B)3D printing
C)Machine learning
D)Computer simulation

Question 30

Which of the following is one of the primary reasons for the increase in Internet use?

A)Reorganization
B)Connectivity technology
C)Organizational restructuring
D)All of these

Question 31

Which trend has the following potential business impact? The time to get products and services to market is being shortened by technology.

A)The global economy is becoming more integrated
B)Pace of technological innovation is increasing
C)The economy and society are dominated by technology
D)Time is becoming one of the world's most precious commodities

Question 32

On average, how many years longer does each generation live than the previous in the United States?

A)One
B)Two
C)Three
D)Four

Question 33

What percentage will all of today's technical knowledge represent in 2050?

A)One
B)Ten
C)Twenty
D)Fifty

Question 34

Which of the following is becoming one of the world's most precious commodities?

A)Ebusiness
B)Energy
C)Currency
D)Time

Question 35

All of the following are countries expected to have the largest increases in population between 2000 and 2050, except

A)Palestinian territory.
B)India.
C)Democratic Republic of the Congo.
D)Yemen.

Question 36

Which of the following is not a potential business impact from people in developed countries living longer?

A)Global demand for elderly products will grow.
B)Global demand for elderly services will grow.
C)The cost of health care will decrease.
D)Pharmaceutical companies will be pushed for advances in geriatric medicine.

Question 37

Which trend has the following potential business impact? Top managers must be computer-literate to retain their jobs and achieve success.

A)The global economy is becoming more integrated.
B)Pace of technological innovation is increasing.
C)The growth in information industries is creating a knowledge-dependent global society.
D)The economy and society are dominated by technology.

Question 38

Why is the global economy becoming more integrated?

A)Relaxed borders in the European Union
B)The Internet
C)International outsourcing
D)All of these

Question 39

What is a type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to both understand concepts in the environment, and also to learn and process?

A)Information of everything
B)3D printing
C)Machine learning
D)Internet of things

Question 40

What is the network security model necessary to accommodate the emergence of multiple perimeters and moving parts on the network and increasingly advanced threats targeting enterprises?

A)Autonomic computing
B)Real-time adaptive security
C)Virtual assistant
D)Autonomous agent

Question 41

What is a small program stored on a PC or portable device that monitors emails, faxes, messages, and phone calls?

A)Autonomic computing
B)Real-time adaptive security
C)Virtual assistant
D)Autonomous agent

Question 42

What is a computer-simulated environment that can be a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world?

A)Ambient digital experience
B)Augmented reality
C)Virtual reality
D)Machine learning

Question 43

What is software that carries out some set of operations on behalf of a user or another program with some degree of independence or autonomy and employs some knowledge or representation of the user's goals or desires?

A)Autonomic computing
B)Real-time adaptive security
C)Virtual assistant
D)Autonomous agent

Question 44

Describe one technology trend discussed in the text and identify the potential business impacts related to the trend.

Question 45

Identify the seven trends that will have the greatest impact on future business.

Question 46

What is a type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to both understand concepts in the environment and also to learn and process?

A)Ambient digital experience
B)Augmented reality
C)Virtual reality
D)Machine learning

Question 47

List and define the five different scientific methods organizations use to anticipate, forecast, and assess future events.

Question 48

Explain why understanding trends and new technologies can help an organization prepare for the future.

Question 49

What is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it?

A)Ambient digital experience
B)Augmented reality
C)Virtual reality
D)Machine learning

Question 50

What is a self-managing computing model named after, and patterned on, the human body's autonomic nervous system?

A)Autonomic computing
B)Real-time adaptive security
C)Virtual assistant
D)Autonomous agent

Question 51

What is a blend of the physical, virtual, and electronic environments creating a real-time ambient environment that changes as the user moves from one place to another?

A)Ambient digital experience
B)Augmented reality
C)Virtual reality
D)Machine learning