It takes the average reader 2 hours and 33 minutes to read Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A guide to the next great wave of technology—an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. "Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic." Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of...
Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling is 152 pages long, and a total of 38,304 words.
This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 29 minutes to read Shaping Things aloud.
Shaping Things is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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