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1. How a social change brought the adoption of a new technology. Give THREE examples.

2. List any three reasons of promoting higher-level programming languages.

3. Evaluate the following scenario from a Kantian perspective and Act Utilitarian perspective.

An organization dedicated to reducing spam tries to get Internet service providers (ISPs) in a South Asian country to stop the spammers by protecting their mail servers. When this effort is unsuccessful, the anti-spam organization puts the addresses of these ISPs on its "blacklist." Many ISPs in the United States consult the blacklist and refuse to accept email from the blacklisted ISPs. This action has two results. First, the amount of spam received by the typical email user in the United States drops by 30 percent. Second, tens of thousands of innocent computer users in the South Asian country are unable to send email to friends and business associates in the United States.

4. BothKantianism and rule utilitarianism are objective. According to both theories, right actions are those that are in line with universal moral rules. In your own words, how the two theories derive the rules in different ways?