- What is a bit and what does it mean to say that "it's all just bits"? (Koan 1) Give examples of the things today that are stored in bits? A bit is one character of data. Meaning "it's all just bits" is just a way of saying that things such as photos or videos on our computers are made of bits. An example of something stored in bits are pictures.
- Describe, in your own words, Moore's Law. Moore's Law is more of a prediction, it is stating how integrated circuits double every few years. Moore thought that growth would continue for a long time in 1965, and is still continuing today.
- Someone offers you a summer job and offers you two pay rates: (1) $10 per hour for 40 hours per week for 30 days or (2) One cent on day 1, two cents and day two, four cents on day three and on (doubling each day) for 30 days. If you were trying to make as much money as possible in 30 days, which pay rate would you choose? What does this illustrate? The second option, it illustrates Moore's law, with the ever growing circuits (or in this case pennies), and it also illustrates how one small bit can start a huge change.
- Give an example of how the digital explosion is "neither good nor bad" but has both positive and negative implications. It can be considered good and bad because most things you do now are monitored, which is good or bad depending on who exactly is monitoring you.
- "Advances in computing have generated and increased creativity in other fields." Comment on this statement. Do you agree? Can you give an example to support (or contradict) it? I agree, because every single job uses computers in some way or another. Even people such as welders, who work with their hands, have to use computers to communicate. It can make any process faster, such as in some parts of theautomotive industry where cars are just made mostly by robots that are controlled by computers.