TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
PRELIMINARIES: COMPUTERS AND SYSTEMS
The computer: from the mundane to the mondial
Cybernation: a note on economics
From telephone to Telesphere
The systems approach: a note on "noise"
Timetables and technological determinants
SOME ASPECTS OF HUMAN SOCIETY: TRAITS AND ASSOCIATION
The biological perspective
Resources and exploitation systems
Centers/hinterlands and the multinational corporation
Voluntary systems and activities
THE ORGANIZATION OF MANKIND: POLITICAL STRUCTURES
The system of sovereignties
Regionalism and world integration
Federalism the ultimate solution?
MEDIA: MASS, MINORITY, AND INTERCHANGE
Mass audience/ specialized audience
Minority media/ minority input
Technical compatibilities: more about the computer
A note on computer storage and print
STRUCTURE AND DISPERSION
Transportation
Electronic dispersion
Decentralized communication systems
APPROACHES TO THE TELESPHERE
"Architecture" and social relations
The demand for liberation
Integration -- not homogenization
NOTES AND DERIVATIONS
APPENDICES: A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
Canadian Communications and education
(Canadian nationalism: a contemporary restatement)
There is no such thing as abstract economics
Technology and society
The media in two cultures
Nationalism in two cultures
The Americanization of the universities
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