Telecom Nation Telecommunications, Computers, and Governments in Canada
- List Price: $125.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr
- Publish date: 08/01/2001
Laurence Mussio examines how federal and provincial public policy tried to keep pace with the diffusion of telecommunications, consumer demand, and a rising tide of technological innovation. Telecommunications regulation struggled to maintain a balance between producer and consumer in an increasingly complex field. Policy makers were compelled to defend the national interest in international telecommunications arrangements or by making far-reaching decisions about transcontinental microwave systems and satellites. By the late 1960s national policy makers had embraced the arrival of the computer -- especially once it began to be wired into Canada's communications infrastructure. Telecom Nation explores the impact of the computer on government policy and the first attempts to build a "national computer utility" -- the beginnings of the Internet -- twenty-five years before it became a reality.
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