Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. The Technological Imperative
6. From Golden Age to Iron Cage: Telecommunications Regulation and the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, 1945–1966 13
7. Connecting Canada to the World: International Telecommunications Policy, 1942–1965 47
8. Canadians and Computers: Initial Canadian Responses to the Computer, 1948–1968 70
9. Revolution and Reaction: Telecommunications Policy, 1960–1969 89
10. System Overload
11. Collapse and Surrender: Telecommunications Regulation and the Canadian Transport Commission, 1967–1975 117
12. The Politics of Technological Development: Canada, 1970–1975 154
13. “Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?” Ottawa and the First Information Highway, 1969–1975 189
14. Conclusion 222
15. Appendix: Tables 229
16. Notes 249
17. Bibliography 279
18. Index 299