Tubes

Journalist Andrew Blum embarks on a fascinating global journey to uncover the hidden physical reality of the Internet in *Tubes*. Challenging the notion of a "placeless" digital world, Blum reveals the vast, tangible infrastructure—the "tubes" of cables, buildings, and data centers—that power our connected lives. From its birthplace in Berkeley to undersea cables connecting continents and monumental data centers, Blum chronicles the Internet's dramatic development, explains its complex workings, and captures the spirit of its crucial, often unseen, physical locations. Like Tracy Kidder's *The Soul of a New Machine*, *Tubes* offers a deeply reported and lucid explanation of the everyday technology we rely on.

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