Full name: Tubes: A Journey To The Center Of The Internet

Author: Andrew Blum Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061994937 9780061994951 0061994936 0061994952

"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. Similar books: Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller Click by Bill Tancer The Shallows by Nicholas Carr You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser Broad Band by Claire L. Evans Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte Googled by Ken Auletta The Code Book by Simon Singh The Innovators by Walter Isaacson The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier In The Plex by Steven Levy The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough