Memo from Mercury
Subtitle: information Technology Is Different
By: Gordon B. Thompson.
Series: Occasional paper - Institute for Research on Public Policy ; no. 10
Publisher: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Published: June 1979
Place of publication: Montreal, Quebec H3V 1H8
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Copyright date: 1979
Subjects: Computers and civilization.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Technology -- Social aspects.
Notes: Prefatory material in English and French.

Bibliography: p. 61-62.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: iii; label: Execuive Summary/Abrege
title: vii; label: Introduction
title: 1; label: 1. The Technologies
title: 5; label: 2. Then and Now
title: 11; label: 3. The Hypothesis
title: 19; label: 4. Information as an Economic Good
title: 23; label: 5. The Information Market-Place
title: 29; label: 6. Electronic Media and the Information Market-Place
title: 35; label: 7. The Other Constraint
title: 43; label: 8. A New Mass Media
title: 51; label: Conclusion
title: 59; label: Bibliography
title: 61