The Trillion Dollar Disruption That Hasn't Happened.
Of all the revolutions that we are currently living, technology is the most promising one. It has killed industries , obliterated professions , and elevated the standard of living for those consumers who have participated in the bonanza. Technology (or more specifically, the internet) has disrupted the taxi monopoly on urban transportation, broken the chokehold of the prescription eyeglasses industry, and more generally, commoditized information . But, if the internet has destroyed the margins of information dispersion companies... Sad news for journalism majors :( ... and made many disappear... more sad news for journalism majors :( Why is it, then, that the internet, which fundamentally is a revolutionary way to distribute (and potentially instill) knowledge, has not contributed to the commoditization of the Educational function of the University (whose mission precisely is to distribute and instill knowledge)? The answer, as certain South African entr