Abstract
One of the first conferences on "communications" was probably held in Rome, in the year 270 B.C., during the reign of Tacitus, and most likely bore on the reliability of messengers, optimal use of the Appian Way, the allocation of air routes to owners of homing pigeons and the effects of triremes on international trade. The first such conference I had the honour of attending took place in Ottawa, in the Year 4 before Pierre Trudeau and was devoted to the regulation of broadcasting and the forseeable effects of multi-channel television on the country's literary culture. Today still -- and it remains an object of mystery -- governments continue to define "communications" in terms of telephones and cameras. You will understand, then, the need to begin by shedding some light on the too generous nature of this word.
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