Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience
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- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- Published by University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) in Canadian Journal of Communication
- Vol. 13 (2) , 16-29
- https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.1988v13n2a447
Abstract
In popular literature on new media (Toffler, 1981; Naisbitt, 1984), in academic literature on the Information Revolution (Bell, 1979; Porat, 1978; Irwin, 1984), and most significantly in policy documents from the Government of Canada, a recurring theme is evident: technological imperative, the doctrine maintaining that technology's march is largely inevitable, autonomous, foreordained (Winner, 1977). In Canada, foremost among proselytizers of the doctrine of technological imperative, have been senior civil servants Shirley Serafini and Michel Andrieu, whose widely-read tome, The Information Revolution and Its Implications for Canada (1981), declared:Keywords
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