[audiobook] Hemingway non verragrave; (Italian Edition) by Giorgio Binnella in Arts-Photography

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A guided tour of the physical Internet; as seen on; above; and below the cityrsquo;s streets What does the Internet look like? Itrsquo;s the single most essentail aspect of modern life; and yet; for many of us; the Internet looks like an open browser; or the black mirrors of our phones and computers. But in Networks of New York; Ingrid Burrington lifts our eyes from our screens to the streets; showing us that the Internet is everywhere around us; all the timemdash;we just have to know where to look. Using New York as her point of reference and more than fifty color illustrations as her map; Burrington takes us on a tour of the urban network: She decodes spray-painted sidewalk markings; reveals the history behind cryptic manhole covers; shuffles us past subway cameras and giant carrier hotels; and peppers our journey with background stories about the NYPDs surveillance apparatus; twentieth-century telecommunication monopolies; high frequency trading on Wall Street; and the downtown building that houses the offices of both Google and the FBIs Joint Terrorism Task Force. From a rising star in the field of tech jounalism; Networks of New York is a smart; funny; and beautifully designed guide to the endlessly fascinating networks of urban Internet infrastructure. The Internet; Burrington shows us; is hiding in plain sight.From the Hardcover edition.