Telecom Nation: Telecommunications, Computers, and Governments in Canada (review)
Vincent Mosco · Technology and Culture · 2002
Recent years have seen significant growth in scholarship on the history of telecommunications and related technologies in Canada. Starting with Robert E. Babe's Telecommunications in Canada and Michele Martin's Hello Central?, and continuing more recently with Dwayne Winseck's Reconvergence and Kevin G. Wilson's Deregulating Telecommunications, we now have a body of work that addresses how and why this industry became so central to Canadian political economy, social life, and cultural identity. Now, drawing primarily on federal and provincial archives, Laurence Mussio's Telecom Nation provides a welcome addition by concentrating on the response of Canada's federal state system to the growth of telecommunications and the arrival of the computer from 1945 to 1975.