The Technological Fix (eBook, ePUB)

How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems
Redaktion: Rosner, Lisa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135938505
• Artikelnr.: 38255403

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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