The term ''technological fix'' should mean a fix provided by technology - a solution for all of our problems. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it
Author(s): Lisa Rosner
Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 272
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
I Fixing Bodies......Page 17
1. Artificial Hearts: A Technological Fix More Monstrous Than Miraculous?......Page 18
2. Plugging in to Modernity: Wilshire’s I-ON-A-CO and the Psychic Fix......Page 34
3. Technology and Disability......Page 60
II Fixing Food......Page 71
4. The Nutritional Enrichment of Flour and Bread: Technological Fix or Half-Baked Solution......Page 72
5. Long-Haul Trucking and the Technopolitics of Industrial Agriculture, 1945–1975......Page 87
6. Synthetic Arcadias: Dreams of Meal Pills, Air Food, and Algae Burgers......Page 109
III Fixing the Environment......Page 123
7. When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth-Century American Mining......Page 124
8. Solving Air Pollution Problems Once and for All: The Potential and the Limits of Technological Fixes......Page 140
9. Fixing the Weather and Climate: Military and Civilian Schemes for Cloud Seeding and Climate Engineering......Page 158
IV Fixing Business......Page 182
10. The “Problem” of Computer-Computer Communication, 1995–2000: A Technological Fix?......Page 183
11. Innovation Junctions......Page 196
Afterword......Page 215
Contributors......Page 219
Index......Page 222
