From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives audiobook runs 11.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Tom Perkins (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 23 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 11.5 hours, it runs longer than 68% of the 3,272 Europe audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Tom Perkins
Tom Perkins narrates 208 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,284 hours in all.
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- Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor
- Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
- Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction
About as long, on the Europe shelf
397 Europe audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
- Churchill's Band of Brothers: WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals
- Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
- I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds
- The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
Other recordings
- The 2026 recording read by Tom Parks runs 0.2 hours shorter (11.3 hours).
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives is an audiobook by Jeffrey E. Garten: a 11.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Tom Perkins, released March 1, 2016, on the Europe and Non-Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Tom Perkins
- Released
- March 1, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Europe, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781681680552
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives audiobook?
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives runs 11.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.
Is the From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives?
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives is narrated by Tom Perkins.
Is From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.8 hours.