Vendeur : Alexander Books (ABAC/ILAB), Ancaster, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Etat : Fine. First Edition. 160p. Text in French and English. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 022822
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Vendeur : Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. 77 pp each French and English text back to back. Wraps are lightly rubbed with light edgewear. Top and foredge, verso front wrap and title page stained. N° de réf. du vendeur 007080
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Vendeur : Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Fading Due to Sun Exposure. The introduction and three addresses have been translated into French by Annick Tonet-Tyers. CONTENTS: Introduction - by Beland Honderich; Canada in the Age of Microelectronics - by T. R. Ide; Computers, Telecommunications and Canada: Options for Our Future - by Eric G. Manning; The Television Revolution and the National Interest - by Alphonse Ouimet. PUBLISHER: The Walter L. Gordon Lecture Series Fund was established in 1976 for the purpose of financing an annual series of lectures on contemporary Canadian themes and of publishing each annual series. The Fund is temporarily administered by The Canada Studies Foundation, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V5. Printed in Canada 1980 by Omnigraphics Inc., Toronto, Ontario. EXCERPT: INTRODUCTION The fourth volume of the Walter L. Gordon Lecture Series deals with a subject - the Computerized Society - that has profound and even alarming implications for Canada. Cheap, small, powerful computers are reaching into every sector of the economy, introducing automation and change on a scale unmatched by any previous technology. Yet there is little public awareness of the fundamental nature and scope of the changes taking place and the public policies required to protect our economic, cultural and even political interest . . . The three lectures taken together leave one with an uncomfortable feeling about Canada's ability to exploit the opportunities and offset the adverse effects of the new technological order. To the extent they stimulate discussion and hopefully action, they will achieve the purpose of the friends of Walter Gordon in establishing the Lecture Series. - Beland Honderich, Chairman and Publisher, The Toronto Star. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 001254
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