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Joseph Corn

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User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers

User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers

2011
  

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Travel the World with Stanford Historians in 2024

July 20, 2023

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