| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
consumer struggles with personal technologies, fromclocks and sewing machines to cars and computers |
| 作者: |
CornJoseph J, |
| 其他團體作者: |
Project Muse |
| 出版地: |
Baltimore |
| 出版者: |
Johns Hopkins University Press; |
| 出版年: |
2011 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (272 p.)ill. : |
| 標題: |
Consumer satisfaction - |
| 標題: |
Human-computer interaction - |
| 標題: |
Human-machine systems - Social aspects - |
| 標題: |
Technological innovations - United States - |
| 電子資源: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421401935/ |
| 附註: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index |
| 摘要註: |
"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 |
| ISBN: |
9781421401935electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1421401932electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9781421401928hbk. |
| ISBN: |
1421401924hbk. |
| 內容註: |
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 -- Computersand the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments |