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is a journalist and the author of the bestselling Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, which has been translated into ten languages. Blum’s writing about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel have appeared in numerous publications, including Wired, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. He s currently writing a book about the global infrastructure of the weather.

He talks to us about discovering the physical side of the internet, from his own home to the depths fo the ocean.

is a British artist and writer based in Athens, Greece. His artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. His writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, Domus, Cabinet, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Observer and many others, in print and online. He lectures regularly at conferences, universities, and other events. His formulation of the New Aesthetic research project has spurred debate and creative work across multiple disciplines.Ìý

He talks to us about Ìýimportance of recognising the physicality of our digital world, and how the image we have of invisible technologies shape and impact our daily lives.Ìý

She is also the author of ‘Networks of New York’, and took us hunting for the internet downtown.

Dr. Barbara Hahn is an associate professor of history at Texas Tech University and the associate editor of Technology and Culture, the journal of the Society for the History of Technology. ÌýShe is the author of two books (Making Tobacco Bright, 2011, and The Cotton Kings, 2016, with Bruce E. Baker). ÌýShe has been a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow to the School of History at the University of Leeds and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

She talks to us about the nature of the sublime, how it is beautiful and terrifying, Ìýand how it manifests in our architecture and our technology.