The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat
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The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat
The fiber business crashed and burned, but inexpensive fiber was key to the growth of YouTube, Netflix, and the rest of the streaming industry. The
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Internet people like to talk about “the stack,” or the layered architecture of protocols, software and hardware, operated by different service providers that collectively delivers the daily miracle of connection. It’s a complicated, dynamic system with a basic value baked into the core design: Key functions are kept separate to ensure resilience, g... See more
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
Now it’s apparent that nature runs as a massively interconnected system, with the deep sea as its motherboard. Yet even as we tinker with the machinery in potentially irreversible ways, we have only the foggiest notion of how it all works.
Susan Casey • The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects. The only things that have changed since then are that the... See more