"Mother Earth Mother Board" is an essay by Neal Stephenson that appeared in Wired Magazine in December 1996,[1] on the subject of the history of undersea communication cables and a modern-day effort to lay the Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe.[2] It was later reprinted in Some Remarks.[3]

See also

How the World Was One

References

  1. ↑ Stephenson, Neal (December 1, 1996). "Mother Earth Mother Board". Wired Magazine. Archived from the original on November 7, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  2. ↑ Maly, Tim. ""Why's this so good?" No. 21: Neal Stephenson's plot-free adventure story". Nieman Foundation. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  3. ↑ Doctorow, Cory (August 7, 2012). "Neal Stephenson's Some Remarks, a remarkable essay collection". Boing Boing. Archived from the original on August 8, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2021.

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