Corn, Joseph J. <br/><br/>
User unfriendly :  consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / 
Joseph J. Corn. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  (c)2011. 
 - 1 online resource (272 pages :) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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."--Jacket. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421401935 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Consumer satisfaction.<br/>Human-computer interaction.<br/>Human-machine systems--Social aspects.<br/>Technological innovations--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T173  / .U847 2011