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Precisely what the title says - but a "journey" more than the "internet". Common knowledge scraped into a book, IMHO.
評分世上大概有不少人和我一樣,互聯網這個東西用很久卻不知為何物,作者很有心思的從現實世界入手,從各個存在的互聯網實體或者說是硬件設施來瞭解這個虛擬世界是如何運作的,雖然作者沒提也不擅長算法或是其他什麼先進的邏輯語言,但對於好奇寶寶來說書裏提到的這些已經足以打破我們對Internet神壇之上的刻闆印象,起碼以後傢裏寬帶掉綫,我不會抓狂瞭,整體文風偏遊記,不少人物描寫和景色描寫,還蠻有代入感的,這類inquiry into的科普讀物還是不錯的。
評分Precisely what the title says - but a "journey" more than the "internet". Common knowledge scraped into a book, IMHO.
評分世上大概有不少人和我一樣,互聯網這個東西用很久卻不知為何物,作者很有心思的從現實世界入手,從各個存在的互聯網實體或者說是硬件設施來瞭解這個虛擬世界是如何運作的,雖然作者沒提也不擅長算法或是其他什麼先進的邏輯語言,但對於好奇寶寶來說書裏提到的這些已經足以打破我們對Internet神壇之上的刻闆印象,起碼以後傢裏寬帶掉綫,我不會抓狂瞭,整體文風偏遊記,不少人物描寫和景色描寫,還蠻有代入感的,這類inquiry into的科普讀物還是不錯的。
評分despite bad writing, interesting glimpse into the networking world
Andrew Blum is a journalist and the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, the first book-length look behind the scenes of our digital lives, at the physical heart of the Internet itself. Before falling into the Internet's depths, Blum was writing about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel--all subjects arising out of his interest in the relationship between place and technology. Since 1999, Blum's articles and essays have appeared in Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Business Week, Metropolis, Popular Science, Gizmodo, The Atlantic, Architectural Record, and Slate, among many other publications. He has degrees in literature from Amherst College and in human geography from the University of Toronto, and lives in his native New York City with his wife and daughter.
Tubes will be translated into German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
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. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now.
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. It is a shockingly tactile realm of unmarked compounds, populated by a special caste of engineer who pieces together our networks by hand; where glass fibers pulse with light and creaky telegraph buildings, tortuously rewired, become communication hubs once again. From the room in Los Angeles where the Internet first flickered to life to the caverns beneath Manhattan where new fiber-optic cable is buried; from the coast of Portugal, where a ten-thousand-mile undersea cable just two thumbs wide connects Europe and Africa, to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have built monumental data centers—Blum chronicles the dramatic story of the Internet's development, explains how it all works, and takes the first-ever in-depth look inside its hidden monuments.
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. You can map it and touch it, and you can visit it. Is the Internet in fact "a series of tubes" as Ted Stevens, the late senator from Alaska, once famously described it? How can we know the Internet's possibilities if we don't know its parts?
Like Tracy Kidder's classic The Soul of a New Machine or Tom Vanderbilt's recent bestseller Traffic, Tubes combines on-the-ground reporting and lucid explanation into an engaging, mind-bending narrative to help us understand the physical world that underlies our digital lives.
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