Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Introduction 6
4. Background
5. “Technological Systems and Canadian Development”: The Case of the Fur Trade 13
6. “Unpacking the Black Box of Technology” 29
7. “The Mind, the Machine and the Living Earth” 43
8. Technology and Political Economy
9. Transportation Systems and Empire Building 61
10. Inside the Networks of the Global Economy 75
11. Transition
12. Technology, Culture and Discourse 93
13. Communication, Culture and Identity
14. The Industrialization of Knowing 113
15. The Medium is the Message, and the Massage 127
16. Making and Breaking Monopolies of Knowledge 143
17. Summing Up
18. Imagining Canada in the Global Village 161
19. Feminist and Ecological Perspectives 177
20. Review and Final Comments 193