![]() ![]() It is a shockingly tactile realm of unmarked compounds, populated by a special caste of engineer who pieces together our networks by hand where glass fibers pulse with light and creaky telegraph buildings, tortuously rewired, become communication hubs once again. In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives-and the broader scheme of human culture-can be found on the Internet. Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic “Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.” ![]()
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