500-3 Yhtomit

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PART 1

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In this week’s reading, a computer’s central processing unit (CPU) was compared to a human brain. When the human brain is damaged, our ability to think clearly and behave properly can be negatively impacted.

1. What happens when a CPU is damaged? In other words, what computer operations      are impacted and why?
2. What      would happen if CPUs were as susceptible to perception and error as the      human brain?
3. How      is computer hardware, created by human brains, limited by its’ developers?
4. How      is computer memory similar to human memory?
5. How      is computer memory different than human memory?

PART 2 

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As the size of a computer bus increases, the result is faster computing and greater throughput of information. As developers have refined computer hardware components, such as bus processing speed, our ability to quickly access information and complete work has also improved.

1. What      are the benefits of increased computer speed?
2. What      are the costs of increased computer speed?
3. In      your opinion, could a computer ever be "too fast"?
   • Why or why not?
   • If you believe a computer could eventually be "too       fast", at what point do you think that speed threshold would be       reached?
   • If you do NOT believe a computer could ever be "too       fast", how might computer users be impacted by the fact that the       average human brain has not increased the speed with which it processes       data at the same rate computer processing speeds have evolved?