A gripping account of the ingenious minds who gathered together the greatest technological inventions of our species to create a machine that can see into our planet's future with astonishing accuracy
Andrew Blum is the author of Tubes- Behind the Scenes at the Internet, described as 'utterly engrossing ... the year's most stimulating and original travel book' (Independent) and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He writes about infrastructure, architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel. Since 1999, his articles and essays have appeared in Wired, Popular Science, Metropolis, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, New Yorker and many more publications. He has degrees in literature from Amherst College and in human geography from the University of Toronto, and lives in his native New York City.
This fascinating book reveals the existence and origins of surely
one of our species’ greatest creations, and Andrew Blum is the
perfect writer to share both the remarkable human stories and the
astonishing technical wizardry behind it all
*MARK VANHOENACKER, author of Skyfaring*
It’s easy to … overlook the monumental achievement [weather
forecasts] represent … The Weather Machine asks us to pause and
marvel at … one of humankind’s greatest accomplishments
*New Yorker*
Revelatory … convey[s] the technical brilliance and political
significance of an achievement that hides in plain sight. The
machine’s complexity alone is off all familiar charts … Blum does
an excellent job
*Telegraph*
I strongly recommend th[is] book, which is a fascinating glimpse of
a mysterious world
*Tim Haford, author of The Undercover Economist*
Blum’s wonderful book succeeds in making the science and industry
of forecasting the weather … at once vitally human, technologically
awesome and urgently, thrillingly relevant
*Royal Geographical Society*
Sharp, stylish and often surprising. In this absorbing book Andrew
Blum tracks the development, from wild dream to astonishing
reality, of the quietly revolutionary technology that shapes our
everyday lives
*PETER MOORE, author of The Weather Experiment*
Exhilarating ... a hurricane-force tour of one of the most
astonishing but under-appreciated facets of the modern world
*LEWIS DARTNELL, author of Origins*
Written with an ease and beauty that will captivate anyone who is
simply curious about how things work and came to be' (Literary
Review)
*Literary Review*
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