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6 episodes
#2656: Marconi vs. the Cable Builders: Who Really Built the Internet?
Was the internet born from Marconi's wireless towers or the first transatlantic telegraph cables? We argue both sides.
#1416: The Mauritian Miracle: Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean
How did a tiny island nation turn a "doomed" economy into a global financial powerhouse? Discover the secrets of the Mauritian Miracle.
#797: The Hidden Hierarchy: Who Really Owns the Cloud?
Explore the hidden hierarchy of the cloud, from massive hyperscalers to the boutique providers and resellers powering our digital world.
#470: The Billion-Dollar Millisecond: High-Frequency Trading
Discover how HFT firms use space lasers and hollow-core fiber to shave microseconds off trades in a high-stakes, winner-take-all race to zero.
#334: Subsea Secrets: How AI Taps the World's Fiber Optics
Herman and Corn reveal how governments ingest the internet through subsea cables and use Agentic AI to filter the global digital firehose.
#138: The Glass Threads: Decoding the Internet's Anatomy
From living room routers to deep-sea cables, Herman and Corn explore the massive, hidden engineering that keeps our digital world connected.