Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

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Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of PushingPush 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

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complete with neat little caps

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