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How long does it take to read Connectography?

Parag Khanna

Connectography by Parag Khanna takes about 8 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 49 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2016. 481 pages, about 132,275 words.

18 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 42 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 31 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the worlds burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africas fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the worlds ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together." --

Subjects: Transnationalism, International economic relations, International relations, Human geography, Geopolitics, Globalization

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