User Unfriendly : Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers.
Title:
User Unfriendly : Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers.
Author:
Corn, Joseph J.
ISBN:
9781421401935
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Our Marvelous and Maddening Machines -- Chapter 1 The Advent of Technology Consumption -- Chapter 2 Buying an Automobile -- Chapter 3 Running a Car -- Chapter 4 Tools, Tinkering, and Trouble -- Chapter 5 Reading the Owner's Manual -- Chapter 6 Computers and the Tyranny of Technology Consumption -- Epilogue: The Technology Treadmill -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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