UWB

2. What might you do with access to UWB radio transmissions if you had a receiver in a car?

If I had a UWB radio transmission in my car, it would make driving easier and more enjoyable. You could use your gps, charge your phone, play music, and watch a movie in HD all at the same time without any wires. Wires get in the way and can be a hassle for some.

Zeran

1.     What might you have done differently if you were in the position of artist Ken Zeran, mentioned in this chapter?

From what I read about Ken Zeran and the AOL t-shirt hoax, he did the right thing. He called AOL to get them to take down the bulletin about him selling t-shirts. He contacted the radio station that had people call him and explained. I felt although that was the right thing to do but he could have done something simpler like just change his number. That could have settled everything and he wouldn’t have had to waste money attempting to sue people and receive death threatening calls. The chapter says he depended on that number, but he could have sent his new number to the people he was associated with and explain why he had to change his number. That is what I would have done instead of letting the situation escalate into what it did.

drm

What’s the value of a bit? It seems that going after folks who have traded songs or movies online is a huge expenditure of effort and money. Is DRM-protected content the way to go? If you don’t agree, propose another method for the distribution of digital multimedia so that content creators can still be compensated.

Everyone downloads illegal music or movies even though they may not know it. I feel DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected content is a bad way to protect from illegal downloads. It has so many restrictions and is difficult for consumers to download legal music and movies. A way for content creators to be compensated for downloads and for people to stop downloading illegally, they can let consumers pay a one-time fixed rate for unlimited downloads. More accessibility to share and copy music for those in colleges would also be a great option.

Friend of a Friend

2. What professional benefits do you see by investing some time in a FOAF-style network?

With using a FOAF- style network, you can find people that know people by advetising to a certain group of people depending on peoples relationships and interest. This is good for company to advertise to a target audience and get feedback on products such as they do on facebook. They have the ads on the side of the page that are targeted to you. This is a great way for professionals to get something out of FOAF.

Prisoner’s Dilemma

1. Considering the Prisoner’s Dilemma in this chapter, provide your own insight on how sites such as eBay “work” for most participants of this popular online auction site. Do they really work? Or is there too much risk?
eBay is a site where you can buy from people or sell to people. It is sometimes risky, someone can send you a shady item that you did not order or you can recieve a payment and not send the product to the consumer. Those are worst case scenarios. This is not the case as it was in the past. Before this happened often, but now eBay has covered itself and has helped everyone make buying and selling a lot less risky. Now they have the eBay buyer prtection to make sure you can contact the seller and make your purchase legit and not get scammed into buying the wrong thing and most of all getting your money stolen. There is also the Top- rated sellers, so you can buy from the most reliable that have excellent service. You control what you buy and sell by giving the feedback. As long as you tell the truth about the buyer or seller we can keep the frauds out of eBay.

Information Cascade

2. Look deeper into the concept of a “information cascade.” Can you cite an example of where following the actions of others was a sound idea? Where doing so ended up being a poor choice?

In sports, information cascade is the basis of a great team. If you have a leader on a team or multiple if lucky you want to look at what that person does and emulate the things that person does. This is a domino effect where if one follows what that model person is doing then everyone will follow.

Now a poor choice would be falling under peer pressure. Something that all teens do, whether it is drinking or being a delinquent because you are hanging with the wrong crowd of people.

Revolution of Technologies

 1. Based on the quote from this chapter, ““revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies--it happens when society adopts new behaviors,” do you agree or disagree? Cite examples to support your position.

I definitely agree with this quote, although the coolest gadgets are great to have and may be able to turn off your lights when your 1000s of miles away, but simple things have moved us forward. For example, the revolution of the World Wide Web, everyone uses it today for everything from shopping and selling things to looking up how to make cupcakes. Wasn’t always like this but as time went on more people started using it and getting comfortable with it. The WWW is a part of our daily lives tremendously.