What would the internet look like if you tried to draw it?
At a discussion of Andrew Blum’s new book, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet at the Greenlight Bookstore last night, the audience was asked to “try to draw the Internet.”
Most drawings looked like spiderwebs, tangled coils, or pinwheels made up of screens and keys.
Blum said that a Google image search for “The Internet” will tend to call up blobby illustrations that resemble the Milky Way or the blue-marble image of the Earth from space.
“It’s meant to mean that it’s something that we can’t fully understand, and we’re meant to be in awe of the totality of it,” said Blum of such renderings.
What would you draw?
