Hi Jim, re: "the generation of capitalists that emerged from WW II, and the highly-developed relationship between industry and government."
While I cogitate over your last posting you may wish to read or review once again (assuming you'd already seen this the first time I posted it here, about a hundred years ago) this once-restricted US Government document. It not only personifies what you are stating, but also provides a rich view of the history of US telecommunications, including route topologies and maps (ergo, one might assume, one of the reasons for its restricted nature at the time; pp. 29 and 30, e.g., provide maps of the toll routes across the US, and it gets orders of magnitude more granular than that in places as well), while providing high-level technical descriptions of many of the telephone, teletype and "record communications" technologies that had been used in the US up to that point in time, as well. But the real nugget I'm exposing here hasn't to do only with technology, but moreso the level of interaction between the Bell System, in this case, and the government, which is the sort of relationship I believe you were alluding to earlier. Enjoy!
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CIVIL TELECOMMUNICATIONS - ITS* MOBILIZATION AND CONTROL
March 3, 1952
ndu.edu
* As shown in the pdf image format. My first assumption was that ITS was a TLA and proceeded to waste a little bit of time trying to figure it out. Reading on, however, I came to read in several places that it is actually the contracted form of 'it is' apparently misrepresented in the heading of the printed copy.
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