How many pages is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI?

225 pages, which is about 68,000 words and 4½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.

Is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI worth reading?

Only 19 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 225 pages and about 4½ hrs of your time, or 3 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.

How long is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI audiobook?

About 7½ hrs, estimated from the 68,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI

Name: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI
Author: Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

4½ hrsto read

At your speed≈ 4½ hrs

Pages225

Audiobook≈ 7½ hrs

225 pages works out to roughly 68,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 4½ hrs — a weekend's reading.

Only 19 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.

How long does it take to read The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI?

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI is 225 pages, or roughly 68,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	6½ hrs
Average	250	4½ hrs
Fast	400	3 hrs

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How long does it take to read The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI?: About 4½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI runs 225 pages, roughly 68,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 6½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3 hrs.
How many pages is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI?: 225 pages, which is about 68,000 words and 4½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
Is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI worth reading?: Only 19 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 225 pages and about 4½ hrs of your time, or 3 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI audiobook?: About 7½ hrs, estimated from the 68,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

In modern tech parlance, a centaur is a person who is able to use technology to be a better, more productive version of themself. A reverse centaur is a person who is forced by technology to work at an inhuman pace—a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a…

programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI is not another anti-AI screed. Cory Doctorow uses AI in his work every day. As a creative person, he has no moral or dogmatic issue with AI—he thinks the technology is useful, even exciting, and full of potential. And yet. AI has arrived surrounded by unprecedented hype driven by a tech industry desperate to maintain its unprecedented valuation based on its own promises of endless financial growth. Despite the fact that almost all of AI’s real-world implementations have proved underwhelming, AI is projected to be worth more than $16 trillion—a number that only makes sense if AI replaces vast swathes of the wage-earning human workforce. To justify that level of “value,” every story about AI must be presented as inevitable, world-changing disruption. Even the tales of the robot apocalypse are a calculated attempt to bolster the fearsome power of AI. For Doctorow, it is imperative to see through that hype to the real story, to understand the technology not just for what it does, but for who it does it to and who it does it for. From that point of view, the story of AI is indeed dramatic and unprecedented, having generated an investment bubble so big that it endangers the entire world economy. In The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI—as he so successfully did in Enshittification—Doctorow recounts both how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can get through it, to a life “after” AI in which the tools work for us, not the other way around.

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