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?
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.
Utterly engrossing. The year's most original and stimulating
'travel' book. Even the most geek-wary of readers will enjoy
*Independent, Book of the Week*
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*
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*
A brilliantly smart idea executed with investigative skill and
flair. Readers will never send an email so carelessly again.
*Independent Books of the Year*
Compelling and profound. You will never open an e-mail in quite the
same way again
*Tom Vanderbilt, author of the New York Times bestseller
Traffic*
One of our best writers. A compelling story of an altogether new
realm where the virtual world meets the physical
*Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker critic*
The Internet really IS a series of tubes! Who knew?
*David Pogue, Technology Editor of The New York Times*
At once funny, prosaic, sinister and wise, Blum's tale is a
beautifully written account of the true human cost of all our
remote connectivity
*Bella Bathurst, author of The Lighthouse Stevensons*
With infectious wonder, Andrew Blum introduces us to the Internet's
geeky wizards and takes us on an amiably guided tour of the world
they've created ... the Internet that Blum's beautifully lucid
prose makes real turns out to be if anything a more marvelous place
than the cloudy dreamland we'd imagined
*Donovan Hohn, author of Moby Duck*
An illuminating journey of discovery
*Sunday Express*
Total immersive reading
*The Wharf*
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