David Wiley hads made headlines in his local news by predicting "your universities will be irrelevant by 2020." That's certainly the trend, but could it happen so quickly? I think that by 2010 universities will be in roughly the same state newspapers are now - some will have already failed, while the business model for the rest will be shaky. But irrelevant? Not exactly - the hollow shell that is institution and tradition can march on long after the purpose and value of something has ended.
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