User Unfriendly Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers /
Corn, Joseph J.
User Unfriendly Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers / [Recurso electrónico] : Joseph J. Corn. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (272 p. :) ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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
Libro Electrónico
"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."--Dust jacket.
9781421401935 1421401932
Consumer satisfaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-machine systems--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--United States.
Electronic books.
T173.8 / .C685 2011
303.48/30973
User Unfriendly Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers / [Recurso electrónico] : Joseph J. Corn. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (272 p. :) ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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
Libro Electrónico
"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."--Dust jacket.
9781421401935 1421401932
Consumer satisfaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-machine systems--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--United States.
Electronic books.
T173.8 / .C685 2011
303.48/30973
2251-8215
