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Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Electrical Record and Buyer's Reference
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Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Electrical Record and Buyer's Reference
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Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Electrical Installation Record
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Category : Electric industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : Electric industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Chicago Central Business and Office Building Directory
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Power Button
Author: Rachel Plotnick
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262551950
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262551950
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.
Nelson Chesman & Co.'s Newspaper Rate Book
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Category : Credit ratings
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Credit ratings
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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