Tubes

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 TrafficIn 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 MachineTracy Kidders classic story of the creation of a new computerwas to the late twentieth.