<p>“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.”<br />—Tom Vanderbilt, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Traffic</em></p><p>In <em>Tubes</em>, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at <em>Wired</em> 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, <em>Tubes</em> is to the early twenty-first century what <em>Soul of a New Machine</em>—Tracy Kidder’s classic story of the creation of a new computer—was to the late twentieth.<br /></p>