The Technological Fix How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems 1st Edition by Lisa Rosner ISBN 0415947103 978-0415947107
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ISBN 10: 0415947103
ISBN 13: 978-0415947107
Author: Lisa Rosner
The term “technological fix” should mean a fix provided by technology–a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it solves. This collection sets out the distinction between a technological fix and a true technological solution.
Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, the essays trace the technological fix as it has appeared throughout the twentieth century. Addressing such “fixes” as artificial hearts, industrial agriculture and climate engineering, these essays examine our need to turn to technology for solutions to all of our problems.
Table of contents:
Introduction: The Technological Fix
Section One: Fixing Bodies
Chapter 1: Artificial Hearts – A Technological Fix More Monstrous Than Miraculous
Chapter 2: Plugging in to Modernity: Wilshire’s I-ON-A-CO and the Psychic Fix
Chapter 3: Technology and Disability
Section Two: Fixing Food
Chapter 4: The Nutritional Enrichment of Flour and Bread: Technological Fix or Half-Baked Solution
Chapter 5: Long-Haul Trucking and the Technopolitics of Industrial Agriculture, 1945–1975
Chapter 6: Synthetic Arcadias: Dreams of Meal Pills, Air Food, and Algae Burgers
Section Three: Fixing the Environment
Chapter 7: When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth Century American Mining
Chapter 8: Solving Air Pollution Problems Once and For All: The Potential and the Limits of Technological Fixes
Chapter 9: Fixing the Weather and Climate: Military and Civilian Schemes for Cloud Seeding and Climate Engineering
Chapter 10: The Problem of Computer-Computer Communication, 1995–2000: A Technological Fix?
Chapter 11: Innovation Junctions: Office Technologies in the Netherlands, 1880–1980
Afterword
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