invention

“You can see her noticing this all over Southern California, this lack of a moral center, and people for whom a moral center is a laughable invention.”

Every new media invention has caused moral panic: radio, TV, the Walkman.

Its central story, about a young woman and toddler in flight through war-ravaged Italy, is an invention.

"In the same way that the invention of semiconductors made today's smartphones, computers and electronics possible, topoconductors and the new type of chip they enable offer a path to developing quantum system," Microsoft said.

The other innovation of the 17th century was the invention of modern democracy.