Time: 8:00pm to 8:40pm

Answer the following:

1.      Give some of the neo-Luddite criticisms of electronic commerce. Give an example of a bad decision or poor work that you can attribute to mental laziness encouraged
by computers or the Internet.

2.      Analyze the following argument that we are forced to have a cellphone. Is it convincing?

Some people do not want to own or use a cellphone. Technology advocates say if you don’t want one, you don’t have to buy one. But this is not true. We have to have one. Before cellphones became popular, there were coin-operated telephones all over, on street corners, in and near stores, in restaurants, at gas stations, and so on. If we needed to make a call while away from home or work, we could use a pay phone. Now most pay phones are gone, so we have to have a cellphone whether we want to or not.