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A reminder of this fascinating SFU City Program\u00a0lecture<\/a> on May 2nd. The event should appeal to a wide cross-section of Spacing readers\u2014even those of you who didn’t think you had an interest in the inner\u00a0workings\u00a0of the interest!<\/p>\n

Tubes and Exchanges: Discovering the Real Places of the Internet<\/h2>\n

DATE:<\/strong> May 2, 2013, 7:00-9:00 pm
\nLOCATION:<\/strong> SFU Harbour Centre [1400-1430],\u00a0515 W Hastings St, Vancouver (map<\/a>)
\nADMISSION:<\/strong>\u00a0Free, but seating is limited, so\u00a0reservations are required<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline,\u00a0Andrew Blum<\/b><\/a>, a journalist,\u00a0started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it\u2014the underwater cables, secret switches, and other physical bits that make up the net. Blum\u2019s talk will take you on a journey through this network of networks.<\/p>\n

He will explore its evolution over time and discuss how centralized hubs called Internet Exchanges (there are 350 in the world) are making the Internet faster and more affordable for everyone in the cities where they operate. He will highlight Vancouver\u2019s Internet Exchange, operated by\u00a0BCNET<\/a>\u00a0and located at Harbour Centre, as well as what it means for the city\u2019s businesses, public post-secondary institutions, and future economic development.<\/p>\n

\n

Speaker\/Lecturer<\/h3>\n

Andrew Blum<\/b>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet<\/i><\/a>, the first book-length look at the physical heart of the Internet.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/p>\n

Tubes<\/i>\u00a0was reviewed in\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/i>,\u00a0The Boston Globe<\/i>,\u00a0Salon<\/i>,\u00a0The Guardian<\/i>,\u00a0The Economist<\/i>,\u00a0The Independent<\/i>,\u00a0Kirkus Reviews<\/i>,\u00a0Bookforum<\/i>,\u00a0Scientific American<\/i>,\u00a0New Scientist<\/i>,\u00a0Brain Pickings<\/i>,\u00a0Ars Technica<\/i>,Science News,\u00a0<\/i>and others. It was also featured on NPR\u2019s Fresh Air, CBS News, Fox News, APM\u2019s Marketplace, BBC\u2019s Book of the Week, The Leonard Lopate Show, KCRW\u2019s DnA, Motley Fool, Larry Mantle, and CBC\u2019s Spark, among others, and presented on the stages of TED Global, the London School of Economics, Microsoft, Town Hall (Seattle), The Architectural League of New York, The Mechanics Institute (San Francisco), Studio-X New York, The Skyscraper Museum, The Boston Athenaeum, and The Free Library (Philadelphia), among others.<\/p>\n

When not immersed in the Internet\u2019s depths, Blum writes about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel. Since 1999, his articles and essays have appeared in\u00a0Wired<\/i>,\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/i>,\u00a0Bloomberg Business Week<\/i>,\u00a0Metropolis<\/i>,\u00a0Popular Science<\/i>,\u00a0Gizmodo<\/i>,\u00a0The Atlantic Online<\/i>,\u00a0Architectural Record<\/i>,\u00a0Slate<\/i>, and many more publications. He has degrees in literature from Amherst College and in human geography from the University of Toronto. He lives in his native New York City.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by\u00a0BCNET<\/a>,\u00a0British Columbia Internet Exchanges<\/a>, and\u00a0SFU Continuing Studies (City Program)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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