User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421401935 (e-book)
- 9781421401928
- 303.48/30973 22
- T173.8 .C685 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.
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.
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