TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corn,Joseph J.
TI  - User unfriendly: consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers 
SN  - 9781421401935
AV  - T173 .U847 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Consumer satisfaction
KW  - Human-computer interaction
KW  - Human-machine systems
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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