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Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives--and the broader scheme of human culture--can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, journalist...
2) Atomica
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.
3) The signal
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus. Chaos is this year's resolution. Imagine every cell phone, radio, and television suddenly broadcasting the same mysterious signal over and over. Now imagine these transmissions evoking violent, uncontrollable, psychotic chaos from everyone who comes in contact with them. The signal begins to invade the minds of everyday citizens. Suddenly struck by the power of the insidious transmissions, they are compelled...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cuttting-edge switching machines and human operators...
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