Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum is...
'Utterly engrossing. The year's most original and stimulating
'travel' book. Even the most geek-wary of readers will enjoy'
Independent 'Entertaining and illuminating. Excels at rooting the
Internet in real-world locations. Full of memorable images that
make its complex architecture easier to comprehend' Observer The
Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our
lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of them are
out there - online. So ... where is that exactly? And who's in
charge again? And what if it breaks? In Tubes Andrew Blum takes us
on a gripping backstage tour of the real but hidden world of the
Internet, introducing us to the remarkable clan of insiders and
eccentrics who own, design and run it everyday. He uncovers the
secret data warehouses where our online selves are stored, peels
back the wires that transport us across the globe, reveals its
mammoth hubs and surprising alley-ways, explaining what the
Internet actually is, where it is, how it got there - and, yes,
what happens when it breaks. 'An engaging reminder that,
cyber-Utopianism aside, the Internet is as much a thing of flesh
and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory. An
excellent introduction to the nuts and bolts of how exactly it all
works and a timely antidote to oft-repeated abstractions about
"cyberspace" or "cloud computing" Economist 'Makes hard-to-grasp
concepts easy to understand, even obvious. The history, in
particular, is one of the best and most memorable I have ever read'
New Scientist 'A Quixotic and winning book with a knack for
bundling packets of data into memorable observations. This valuable
book leaves you with its share of unsettling visions, but there are
comic ones too' The New York Times 'For a full understanding of the
Internet on every level, this book is a must-read' Techzone 'A
great, playful, wondrous read' ArsTechnica 'Blum is perhaps the
millennial generation's John McPhee, chronicling an arcane journey
of deep relevance to everyday life. For non-techies, the book is a
very accessible revelation' Forbes 'All too awesome to behold.
Andrew Blum's fascinating book demystifies the earthly geography of
this most ethereal terra incognita' Joshua Foer, author of
Moonwalking with Einstein 'Compelling and profound. You will never
open an e-mail in quite the same way again' Tom Vanderbilt, author
of Traffic 'One of our best writers. A compelling story of an
altogether new realm where the virtual world meets the physical'
Paul Goldberger, New Yorker 'The Internet really IS a series of
tubes! Who knew?' David Pogue, The New York Times Andrew Blum
writes about architecture, infrastructure and technology for many
publications, including the New Yorker, The New York Times,
Bloomberg Businessweek, Slate and Popular Science. He is a
correspondent for Wired, a contributing editor to Metropolis and
lives in his hometown of New York City.
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