Tubes
A Journey to the Center of the Internet
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Telecommunications, Computers, Internet
| Author: | Andrew Blum | ISBN: | 9780062096753 |
| Publisher: | Ecco | Publication: | May 29, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Ecco | Language: | English |
| Author: | Andrew Blum |
| ISBN: | 9780062096753 |
| Publisher: | Ecco |
| Publication: | May 29, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Ecco |
| Language: | English |
“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.”
—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic
In Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine, takes us on an engaging, utterly fascinating tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives and reveals the dark beating heart of the Internet itself. A remarkable journey through the brave new technological world we live in, Tubes is to the early twenty-first century what Soul of a New Machine—Tracy Kidder’s classic story of the creation of a new computer—was to the late twentieth.
“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.”
—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic
In Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine, takes us on an engaging, utterly fascinating tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives and reveals the dark beating heart of the Internet itself. A remarkable journey through the brave new technological world we live in, Tubes is to the early twenty-first century what Soul of a New Machine—Tracy Kidder’s classic story of the creation of a new computer—was to the late twentieth.
