Posted
5:09 PM
by Gene
More patented GRATE.COM iconoclasm: The Web won't "tear apart" the KOLLEDGE-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, because 1. It's too intertwined with GUVMENT, and GUVMENT and KOLLEDGES want their shakedowns first; 2. You can't say you went to HAHVAHD if you only went there on the Web; 3. KOLLEDGES, like auto dealers, will keep their monopoly positions because of legal mumbo-jumbo like accreditations and certifications and all that jazz, and if the nationalization of GM and Chrysler couldn't destroy the pact between state legisla-TORS and auto dealers how can we hope for different with KOLLEDGES?; 4. You can't create physicians online; 5. MIT has had Web courses for several years; how many degrees has that inspired? and 6. How many football and basketball teams does Yahoo! run? God knows this ossified system of PC, supersmart denseness and sports corruption must be torn up from the roots; the Web may, at best, snip off a few dead branches.
Moreover our iconoclast speaks of the "new" kolledge as an aggregator, meaning this isn't serious.