How long does it take to read Darwin Among the Machines?
Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson takes about 5 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 286 pages, about 78,650 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In his prediction of the World Wide Web's ultimate challenge to human civilization--a globally networked, electronic, sentient being--Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives, work, and ideas of visionaries who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and the global mind.
Subjects: Philosophy, Artificial intelligence, Artificial life, Evolution, Neural networks (Computer science), Teleology
