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What is the term to refer to companies moving their production sites in another country?

• Offshoring

• Downsizing

• Outsourcing

Who said the US needs to “rebuild the economy from the bottom up and from the middle out”?

• Trump

• Obama

• Biden

• Reagan

What is Detroit famous for?

• For being a cluster for the tech industry

• For its currently booming automobile industry

• For going bankrupt in 2013

What are tariffs?

• A tax on sales

• A tax on imported goods coming into the US

• A property tax

When did globalization intensify?

• 1960s

• 1980s

• 1950s

• 1990s

AI can be said to be…

• An industry that is only at its very beginnings

• A booming sector

• Part of a geopolitical race

How has work been impacted by recent advances in the digital economy

• Work has become gamified

• Rise of digital platform workers that are considered employees of the platforms

• Rise of contingent employment with digital platform workers “on-demand”

Tech companies are currently…

• At their best

• Suffering because of rising interest rates

 

How can the metaverse be defined?

• a huge video game

• a new social network

• the convergence of our physical and digital world through technologies like augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR)

China has already won the AI race because…

• It produces the most powerful and cheapest microchip

• As it is an undemocratic regime it gives unrestricted access to citizens’ personal data which helps AI develop

• China hasn'twon the AI race yet

• Because the Chinese government has heavily invested in the AI industry