Promotional banner from Columbia Global Reports featuring a navy-blue and orange design. On the left, the Columbia Global Reports logo appears above large white text reading “The Fragile Undersea Cables That Connect Our World,” with the date “May 6 2026” below. On the right, a book cover titled “The Web Beneath the Waves” by Samantha Subramanian is shown, featuring a stylized map of global undersea cable routes in orange lines over a dark grid background.
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VIDEO 6 MAY 2026 – Columbia Global Reports Book Talk: The Fragile Undersea Cables that Power Our World

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Promotional banner from Columbia Global Reports featuring a navy-blue and orange design. On the left, the Columbia Global Reports logo appears above large white text reading “The Fragile Undersea Cables That Connect Our World,” with the date “May 6 2026” below. On the right, a book cover titled “The Web Beneath the Waves” by Samantha Subramanian is shown, featuring a stylized map of global undersea cable routes in orange lines over a dark grid background. VIDEO | PERMALINK

On Wednesday, May 6 at 12:00 EDT (15:00 UTC) Columbia Global Reports hosted a book talk webinar ‘The Fragile Undersea Cables that Power Our World ‘. In the book ‘The Web Beneath the Waves‘, author Samanth Subramanian travels from remote Pacific islands to secretive cable-laying operations to reveal the world, and vulnerabilities, of the Internet’s undersea infrastructure.

SPEAKERS
Samanth Subramanian – author ‘The Web Beneath the Waves’
Ethan Katz-Bassett – Professor, Columbia Engineering School
Eli Noam – Professor, Columbia Business School

HOST / MODERATOR
Nicholas Lemann – Director, Columbia Global Reports

 

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