Analysis Of Douglass Ruskoff's In The Analog World

As you drive down a long stretched road leading to your designated place, do you see yourself thinking about thoughts or ideas like thinking about new reflections you have about scholarly article you recently read or do you simply engage in multitasking such as driving while on a call with significant other. These ultimately change the way your thinking. The involvement of acceleration in todays century has certainly been the case in which we think. But what are we missing that in a way acceleration tries to push away? It is leisure. Author David Levy stated, “The root problem, he claims, is that culture has lost its practice of leisure” (Levy pg.66). This explains loss of leisure in the world. Author Douglass Ruskoff has this common issue

Rushkoff purpose is mainly to make a good CEO in his manifesto. He focused on young businessmen and CEO’s as his audience for it’s the audience he’s trying to improve. There were issues for why Rushkoff wanted to focus on them. One main issue he noticed was time. Time was a change affecting progress for everyone good or bad. Ruskoff notes, “In the analog world, a minute is a sixtieth of an hour, which is 24th of a day on earth. It is segment of something real. In a digital world, a minute is a duration” (Rushkoff pg.115). What is it that this quote is trying tell us? Rushkoff tells about the analog world, which was the industrial age we used to be in and how the industrial age focused on time as significant part of lives. He then goes on talk about new digital age we live in is the opposite and time is almost meaningless to us. So time as now been changed in the new eras. Rushkoff continues how time and new technology is changing what we think and do. Rushkoff creates new economic opportunities and change of thinking to help get his audience out of the old industrial age and in the digital

We see the common problem is that both author’s have is that acceleration has altered are way of thinking. To further claim and show this similar problem we will look deeper into Levy and Rushkoff’s text and see why it was chosen. Beginning diagnosis of both of these writing you can assume that the authors are trying to argue that technology is is the main correlation in which alters our mind. Rushkoff mentions, “No more hard drive, everything RAM” (Rushkoff pg.115) to explain the major switch and evolve in technology today. It also goes on to explain how people strictly relying on a new way. Levy shares many ideas with Rushkoff that goes with technology. Levy quotes, “Email has also made professors that much more reachable by the general public, the press, and the academics at other institutions, which may be a nuisance or a source of new opportunities, in either case bringing further demands on their time” (Levy pg.77). We see that Levy explains new technology email has expanded and changed how professors work in their institutions. They are found now to be easier to communicate yet more time ridden in their part. Technology may seem to be problem Levy and Rushkoff may have that been contributing to changing the way we generally think. This is not the case, for technology is mere viewed as