301 Chapter 1: Nearest Neighbor (10pts)

  • Write all answers in your bound journal
  • Make it NEAT and in COMPLETE SENTENCES, and clearly number the questions you are answering.
  • Develop your thought, and be ready to share your answer in class.
  • -2pt if you do not title and date the entry
  • -1pt (per infraction) if you do not clearly number the questions for your responses
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  1. Why is ELIZA like a Rorschach test?
  2. What did the graduate students like to share with ELIZA?
  3. Talk to ELIZA. Have a brief personal conversation with "her" as your therapist about any personal or academic issue. Explain your impression of the experience in two paragraphs.
  4. Who is Roxxxy? Why would anyone make her?
  5. What is the "singularity?" Do you believe it will happen?
  6. Turkle (the author) states that children's toys went from "sort of alive" to "alive enough," In your opinion has children's toys conditioned human beings to being more receiptive to the new "singularty" coming?
  7. Describe the five-year-old girl's assesment in "aliveness" between a Tamagotchi and a Furby.
  8. What were children's nearest neighbors before 1970s? What were they in the mid-1980s?
  9. In 1997, Tamagotchis required what from children that no other game required?
  10. What were children's reactions to a Tamagotchi death? How does this make YOU feel?