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Database System Concepts

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ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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Though the Information Technology (I.T) sector provides a viable avenue for securing high earning employment, few women are attracted to this sector. The concept of user-actor gender gap suggests that women are mostly represented as users but not engaged as active members or participants in the development of technological tools.

Examine two (2) reasons for this and suggest three (3) ways to encourage women to be active participants in the field of I.T.

2. Comparing the Utopian and dystopian views of Technology according to Street (1992) which one in your view is more applicable to your society? Give at least three reasons for your answer.

3. Define the process of Technological regression and state and discuss any three innovations that you know experienced technological regression (globally or locally). Discuss at least one factor that could have been responsible for the regression of each.

4. (a)Think of how you use the cellphone to communicate with friends and relatives;

(b)How do you think the technology functions as a means of empowerment to you?

(c)How does it transform your ways of socializing?

(d)Do you think this change is best described as revolutionary or evolutionary? Explain.

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