(like the railroads gandhi evokes, does it, like evil, "have wings")? or is there a way of conceiving of technology in the self-directed, social, or ethical sense of civilization – civilization as "good conduct"?
It outlines important new directions for studies of popular culture and media in Africa and beyond, particularly in how it intervenes in the ways we conceive of global flows, technology, aesthetics, and ultimately, freedom itself". "'The word "kwaito,"' writes Steingo in the Epilogue, 'can be employed only timidly, awkwardly, and at risk of error' (215).
That Le Guin could even conceive of such a technology decades ago speaks to the powers of her imagination.
Researchers at Ericsson conceived of the technology in 1994 as a low-cost radio interface between mobile phones and their accessories that would allow for hands-free calls.
Inspired by the search for planets outside our solar system, Princeton postdoctoral researcher Tyler Groff conceived of a technology that could enhance the quality of images from telescopes.
In 1879, Punch, a satirical British magazine, offered an illustration of a hypothetical "telephonoscope". In the 1920s, according to Smithsonian, many of the inventors doing early work on what became television conceived of the technology not as a broadcast medium but as a two-way system.
Osiakosian is celebrating because he's just been hired to run a program aimed at helping the youth of Ghana learn how to conceive of and launch new technology businesses.
This is because the actual uses to which the app is put resides outside of the app itself, meaning that technological innovation very often depends on innovations in how we conceive of and exploit a particular technology (in this case GPS).
To deal with this, some authors have proposed to conceive of the introduction of new technology in society as a social experiment and have urged to think about the conditions under which such experiments are morally acceptable (Martin and Schinzinger 2005, Van de Poel 2009b).
