How long does it take to read The Singularity Is Near?
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil takes about 11 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 652 pages, about 179,300 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
Subjects: Brain, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Nanotechnology, Robotics
