![]() ![]() Along the way, Blum takes no small pleasure in redeeming the ultimate e-gaffes. At UCLA, he visits computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock, one of the more plausible “fathers of the Internet,” and the actual IMP (interface message processor) he installed in 1969. Across continents and oceans, Blum, a writer for Wired magazine, describes the brick-mortar-and-metal “exchanges” and “silos” that house our virtual lives. “Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet’’ is Andrew Blum’s travelogue through the physical reality of cyberspace. ![]() A particularly stubborn and troublesome breed of gaffe, we might add, is one uttered about the Internet, which inadvertently reveals how little even plugged-in flaks, hacks, and pundits understand about the technology underlying their news cycles. A gaffe, the Washington press corps likes to say, is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. ![]()
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