Mussio, Laurence B.

Telecom nation telecommunications, computers, and governments in Canada / [electronic resource] : Laurence B. Mussio. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001. - x, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-298) and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE THE TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE -- 1 From Golden Age to Iron Cage: Telecommunications Regulation and the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, 1945-1966, -- 2 Connecting Canada to the World: International Telecommunications Policy, 1942-1966 -- 3 Canadians and Computers: Initial Canadian Responses to the Computer, 1948-1968 -- 4 Revolution and Reaction: Telecommunications Policy, 1960-1969 -- PART TWO SYSTEM OVERLOAD -- 5 Collapse and Surrender: Telecommunications Regulation and the Canadian Transport Commission, 1967-1975 -- 6 The Politics of Technological Development: Canada,1970-1975 -- 7 "Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?": Ottawa and the First Information Highway, 1969-1975.


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C009012443




Telecommunication policy--Canada.
Computer networks--Government policy--Canada.


Electronic books.

HE7815 / .M87 2001eb

384/.0971