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What if the Internet goes dark?
We think of the Internet as wireless, weightless, ever-present—but its true foundation lies in the ocean’s depths, where nearly 900,000 miles of fiber-optic cables quietly pulse with all the world’s information.
In The Web Beneath the Waves, the acclaimed journalist Samanth Subramanian travels from remote Pacific islands to secretive cable-laying operations to reveal the astonishing world of undersea infrastructure. He reveals the fate of Tonga after a volcanic eruption severs its only undersea link to the Internet, meets the men and women engaged in the fiendishly complex work of laying submarine cables, and scrutinizes the acts of “grey zone warfare,” in which ghost ships cut the cables of other countries.
Subramanian charts the deep geopolitical tensions, corporate power grabs, environmental risks, and quiet heroics involved in maintaining the Internet’s unseen circulatory system. With his signature clarity and curiosity, he brings to life the cables that stitch continents together—and exposes just how vulnerable our connected lives really are. This is narrative nonfiction at its most urgent and eye-opening: a book that asks what happens when the world goes offline, and who controls the switch.
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About the Author
Samanth Subramanian writes for the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Guardian, among other publications. His last book, A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Life of J. B. S. Haldane, was one of The New York Times’ Top 100 Books of 2020. His previous book, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. He lives in London.
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