2025 WSC Key Terms (Part 3: page 91-114)

What concept involves slightly altering familiar reality to make people think?

What are arcologies designed to do?

Afrofuturism focuses only on fantasy and ignores real-world issues.

What is a common issue with spontaneous excitement from a new idea?

What historical period does Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” cover?

What is the major difference between K.D. Lang’s “Surrender” and Sheryl Crow’s “Tomorrow Never Dies”?

Which artist created a satirical song titled “So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III)”?

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is known for celebrating the past and tradition in his writings.

Atompunk imagines a future where digital technology becomes smaller and more efficient.

What does the game Terra Nil focus on?

Which music producer worked with IBM’s Watson?

What is the rhythm game Osu! known for?

What is “combinational creativity”?

What happens to patients in solitary confinement for extended periods?

What is “model collapse” in AI?

What poetic technique uses the last word of each line to form another poem?

What 2016 short film features a girl living in a simulation created by her father?

What company used “Imagineering” in an ad during World War II?

Nature experiences can help reduce stress and increase feelings of connectedness.

Beatmania helped launch a wave of rhythm games like DDR and Pop N’ Music.

Julie Carr felt constrained by writing only 14-line poems in Real Life: An Installation.

What is the neocortex responsible for?

What constraint did Matthew Tomkinson use in his poetry collection oems?

What brain region is said to boost creative abilities when stimulated?

Generative AI models often rely on large datasets scraped from existing popular content.

What musical instrument is central to the rhythm game Deemo?

The Launch Arcology has systems that could support inhabitants for up to 20 years.

“Imagine” by Common aligns with Solarpunk values.

What is the central idea behind the Solarpunk movement?

Mind wandering can lead to creative insights.

Which artist is associated with the phrase “Space is the Place”?

What was updated in Alanis Morissette’s 2015 version of “Ironic”?

Chiptune music uses modern orchestra instruments.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) already exists and is used daily.

Stitch Fix uses AI to recommend clothing styles based on user preferences.

What did the game Space Invaders introduce to video game music in 1978?

Tap Tap Revenge was popular on early smartphones.

Which American salon host was part of the Harlem Renaissance?

What form is Dylan Thomas’s poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night written in?

What do players use to interact in the VR rhythm game Beat Saber?

“Pure Imagination” was sung by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

What does System 1 processing involve?

The default mode network becomes active during intense focus and problem-solving.

What is Giacomo Balla's artwork "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash" best known for?

What did Ogilvy Paris use DALL-E to create?

Disney was the first to use the term "Imagineering."

What AI artwork sold for $432,500?

What is chiptune music mainly characterized by?

Whose salon included a temple tucked into a garden?

What was Napoleon’s attitude toward women hosting salons?

Which arcology is described as “solid as a rock” and linked with heavy industry?

Who declared her salon to be its own country within her heart, while forbidding love?

What is hypnagogia?

Which 2018 rhythm game uses motion capture and became a global franchise?

What does the MindBeagle device allow locked-in patients to do?

Gertrude Stein’s salon attracted artists like Picasso.

What is the hippocampus responsible for?

What is the Alternate Uses Test used to assess?

What condition involves complete paralysis except for eye movement, while mental awareness remains intact?

What makes the Forest Arcology unique?

REM sleep is the stage of sleep when most dreams occur.

“A TV Show Called Earth” imagines humans being watched by aliens.

The United Nations considers solitary confinement longer than 15 days as torture.