Book description
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.
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.
