1. Social organization, control and information technology -- 2. Telecommunications and the nineteenth-century liberal-international world order -- 3. Information technology and US industro-military development -- 4. Telematics and the post-war international order -- 5. Telematics as a...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The First Information Revolution -- 3 Technological Origins of the Second Information Revolution, 1940-1950 -- 4 The SAGE Project -- I The Separate Worlds of Computers and Communications, 1950-1968 -- 5 The Early...