The Seventh Sense Analysis

Living in an era in the midst of genuine and abiding change, is unsurprising as this has happened before. The issue, however, is identifying what this said change in the modern age is. Why is it important? More so, what do we need, as individuals, and as a society, to know the world? By integrating business, geography, history, politics, and technology, Joshua Cooper Ramo addresses these questions in The Seventh Sense. Ramo implies that we are entering the Age of the Great Connection, a revolutionary time, and networked era, where “connection changes the nature of a thing,” which has a profound impact on society and causes the shift of power, in the same order of magnitude as the previous major revolutions in human history did, namely, the Agrarian Revolution, The Enlightenment, The Scientific Discovery, and Industrial Revolution. In this text, Ramo plagues the reader with questions surrounding the current world, or the twenty-first century, ones that are centralized on “connection” and “networks,” which he states, continue to transform our lives in ways that are both terribly exciting and awfully unsettling (11). The text scarcely, or not even at all, provides any answers, instead, it prompts the reader think about the …show more content…
Moreover, to recognize that society is in a great need of a return to the liberal arts, to not simply regard networks as harmless, and to not wait until our world is defeated and exploited due to people not understanding the system we have built (171). Not only that, but we need to know ourselves, and by doing this, we will be more humane citizens, which is precisely what this era