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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Johnston, Sean, 1956- Techno-fixers. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020 (OCoLC)1125323650 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sean Johnston |
ISBN: | 9780228001324 0228001323 |
OCLC Number: | 1125323551 |
Description: | xvi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Modern times and technological faith -- Rational society : the technocrats and "technological social design" -- Mid-century confidences -- Engineering culture : Alvin Weinberg and the packaging of technological fixes -- Technological promises in popular culture -- Tracing life histories of technological choices -- Implications of technological confidence -- The future for fixing. |
Responsibility: | Sean F. Johnston. |
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"Sean Johnston has written an innovative study of a movement that has become a dominant feature of the modern world's obsession with technology. This is an important story that will be of interest to historians of technology, economic and cultural historians, and anyone worried about the current state of affairs." Peter J. Bowler, Queen's University Belfast and author of A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov "Modern society and its technologies have become mutually dependent, but it is time to temper the torrid love affair. Johnston surveys genetic engineering and concerns about genetically modified foods among the many other examples of failures in his comprehensive look at the problems associated with the unbridled use of the tech fix." Winnipeg Free Press Read more...


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