1st Edition
The Technological Fix How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems
Edited By Lisa Rosner
Copyright 2004
272 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: The Technological Fix, Lisa Rosner,Section One: Fixing Bodies,1. Artificial Hearts - A Technological Fix More Monstrous Than Miraculous, Shelley McKellar,2. Plugging in to Modernity: Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO and the Psychic Fix, Carolyn Thomas de la Peña,3. Technology and Disability, Jim Tobias,Section Two: Fixing Food,4. The Nutritional Enrichment of Flour and Bread: Technological Fix or Half-Baked Solution, Michael Ackerman,5. Long-Haul Trucking and the Technopolitics of Industrial Agriculture, 1945-1975, Shane Hamilton ,6. Synthetic Arcadias: Dreams of Meal Pills, Air Food, and Algae Burgers, Warren Belasco,Section Three: Fixing the Environment,7. When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth Century American Mining, Timothy J. LeCain,8. Solving Air Pollution Problems Once and For All: The Potential and the Limits of Technological Fixes, Frank UeKoetter,9. Fixing the Weather and Climate: Military and Civilian Schemes for Cloud Seeding and Climate Engineering, James R. Fleming,10. The Problem of Computer-Computer Communication, 1995-2000: ATechnological Fix?, Paul E. Ceruzzi,11. Innovation Junctions: Office Technologies in the Netherlands, 1880-1980, Onno de Wit, Jan Van den Ende, Johan Schot and Ellen van Oost,Afterword, Thomas P. Hughes
Biography
Lisa Rosner is Professor of History at Richard Stockton College. A specialist in the history of science, technology, and medicine, she is the consulting editor of The Chronology of Science from Stonehenge to the Human Genome Project.
