The Technological Fix: Visions, Trials, and Solutions Book

	Introduction	1
I	Fixing bodies
1	Artificial hearts : a technological fix more monstrous than miraculous?	13
2	Plugging in to modernity : Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO and the psychic fix	31
3	Technology and disability	61
II	Fixing food
4	The nutritional enrichment of flour and bread : technological fix or half-baked solution	75
5	Long-haul trucking and the technopolitics of industrial agriculture, 1945-1975	93
6	Synthetic arcadias : dreams of meal pills, air food, and algae burgers	119
III	Fixing the environment
7	When everybody wins does the environment lose? : the environmental techno-fix in twentieth-century American mining	137
8	Solving air pollution problems once and for all : the potential and the limits of technological fixes	155
9	Fixing the weather and climate : military and civilian schemes for cloud seeding and climate engineering	175
IV	Fixing business
10	The "problem" of computer-computer communication, 1995-2000 : a technological fix?	203
11	Innovation junctions	219
	Afterword	241