U4C5L2 The Future of Citizen Rights

Automation can lead to economic instability when it causes __________.

• high unemployment and lack of consumer spending

• low unemployment and high prices

• the middle class to expand

• fewer choices about how and where to purchase everyday goods

The 2013 debate about the National Security Agency has to do with __________.

• balancing citizen surveillance with prevention of terrorist acts

• balancing the use of powerful technology with the ownership of the technology

• court approval for spying on suspected criminals

• congressional oversight of citizen surveillance

Websites that encourage hatred and lies are often not shut down because __________.

• you have to go to court to prove malice of intent

• the people who own websites won't allow it

• libel is not against the law

• it is difficult to draw a line between free speech and government censorship

In the future, technology could support direct democracy by __________.

• verifying paper ballots

• giving voters a way to vote directly on issues

• letting people vote online for representatives

• encrypting electronic ballots

The ability of society's members to cooperate with each other and acknowledge shared interests is called __________.

• social cooperation

• societal glue

• collective cooperation

• social cohesion

___________ is the tendency for unpredictable outcomes or actions.

• Flippancy

• Instability

• Constancy

• Inviolability

__________ is the basic physical and organizational structures a society needs to operate.

• Infrastructure

• Government

• Economy

• Culture

A cyberattack is an attack __________.

• by a computer program that targets one person or building on the ground

• made by computerized aircraft

• that causes computer systems or computer programs to malfunction

• made by cyborgs

__________ is the use of automatic machines or computer programs to perform tasks.

• Infrastructure

• Automation

• Computation

• Networking