Telecom nation
Subtitle: telecommunications, computers, and governments in Canada
By: Laurence B. Mussio.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Telecommunication policy -- Canada; Computer networks -- Government policy -- Canada
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE THE TECHNOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE; title: 1 From Golden Age to Iron Cage: Telecommunications Regulation and the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, 1945-1966,; title: 2 Connecting Canada to the World: International Telecommunications Policy, 1942-1966; title: 3 Canadians and Computers: Initial Canadian Responses to the Computer, 1948-1968; title: 4 Revolution and Reaction: Telecommunications Policy, 1960-1969; title: PART TWO SYSTEM OVERLOAD; title: 5 Collapse and Surrender: Telecommunications Regulation and the Canadian Transport Commission, 1967-1975; title: 6 The Politics of Technological Development: Canada,1970-1975; title: 7 "Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?": Ottawa and the First Information Highway, 1969-1975.