UID:
almafu_9959237119502883
Format:
1 online resource (295 p.)
ISBN:
1-4214-0193-2
Content:
"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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4214-0192-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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