The Future for Fixing

In Techno-Fixers: Origins and Implications of Technological Faith. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020)
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This concluding chapter of _Techno-Fixers: Origins and Implications of Technological Faith_ examines the widespread overconfidence in present-day and proposed 'technological fixes', and provides guidelines - social, ethical and technical - for soberly assessing candidate technological solutions for societal problems.

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