Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

By Andrew Blum

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061994952
• ISBN13: 9780061994951
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"