User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers
- ISBN-10
- 1421401932
- ISBN-13
- 9781421401935
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-01
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Joseph J. Corn
Description
User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.
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