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User Unfriendly : Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers /

"Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. ... Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology."...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Corn, Joseph J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Our marvelous and maddening machines
  • The advent of technology consumption
  • Buying an automobile
  • Running a car
  • Tools, tinkering, and trouble
  • Reading the owner's manual
  • Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption
  • The technology treadmill
  • Acknowledgments