You can map it and touch it, and you can visit it. This is a book about real places on the map: their sounds and smells, their storied pasts, their physical details, and the people who live there. For all the talk of the "placelessness" of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical spaces as the railroad or telephone. It is a shockingly tactile realm, one where glass fibers pulse with light and creaky telegraph buildings, tortuously rewired, become communication hubs once again. In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. But what is it physically? And where is it really? When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives-and the broader scheme of human culture-can be found on the Internet. In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internets physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online. Listen to the interview with Andrew Blum '99 and Professor Carol Clark.Learn more about the author (view alumni profile ).It is also an excellent introduction to the nuts and bolts of how exactly it all works.” The Economist “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. In Tubes, acclaimed young journalist Andrew Blum takes readers on a fascinating journey to find out.As Blum writes, the Internet is tangible: it fills. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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