«“Techno-Fixers is a compelling study of the origins and consequences of perennial faith in the idea that society can find technological solutions to social and political problems. This book takes on even greater relevance in light of the tech-evangelists of the present who frame technology as a solution to many of humanity’s most pressing challenges. This excellent work will be of great interest to historians, social scientists, the general public, and policymakers.” H-Net»

"Johnston summarizes his work as a warning against the rhetoric of technological hubris: we must view with skepticism "evangelists for numerous miraculous technological cures." The point is well made, but the book, inadvertently, makes another sobering one … we realise that there was a time when the President of the United States was advised by such distinguished scientists as I.I. Rabi, a Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jerome Wiesner, who became President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Alvin Weinberg. In 2020, no such person briefed Donald Trump." IEEE Technology and Society Magazine