He said that the company he founded had moved assembly to Malaysia 13 years ago because of insufficient government backing for manufacturing, and he questioned whether it was now "falling dangerously out of love with conceiving technology too".
Alas, this wholesale dismissal of technology's past ignores one exceedingly important historical lesson: that culture, broadly conceived, affects technology at least as much as technology affects culture.
The fence, now in the prototype stage, is intended to monitor the borders of airfields, military installations, reservoirs and other vast areas with pressing security needs, said Dr. David C. Swanson, an associate professor of acoustics at Penn State who conceived the technology.
Since the Republic was conceived, communication technologies have evolved to reduce the time and distance that separate Congress from the public, but most of Congress's procedures and practices have remained trapped in a time warp of its own traditions.
Whereas cultural approaches conceive of technology as a cultural phenomenon that influences our perception of the world, political approaches conceive of technology as a political phenomenon, i.e. as a phenomenon that is ruled by and embodies institutional power relations between people.
Marcuse believed that it was possible to conceive of technology under an entirely new reality principle.
He pointed out the importance of 'new men and new companies' in this process– and he deliberately drew the distinction between inventors – who conceive new technology – and entrepreneurs who then exploit them for profit.
The influence of assisted reproductive technology would not be able to fully explain the differences seen due to small percentage of pregnancies conceived with this technology.
Project M was conceived as a technology demonstration, not a scientific mission.
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.
