| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.2

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Book Review

The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems. Edited by Lisa Rosner. New York: Routledge, 2004. 265 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors, index. Paper $24.95.

Technology, or the ability to make increasingly sophisticated tools to aid in everyday life, is what sets humans apart from other animals. It has enabled humans to improve their capacity to procure food and shelter, to communicate, and to live longer, healthier lives. Technology, for all its power to enhance the human condition, does not come without a price. One of these costs is humans' growing dependence on technological solutions that may or may not really fix the problems at hand—solutions known derogatorily as "technological fixes." This reliance on technology, the belief in its power to solve problems quickly, and the additional problems caused by "quick fixes" are the subjects of The Technological Fix.

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