Tom, See: http://www.internet2.edu. This initiative was started in the late 90's as a high bandwidth, subscription based research and education delivery system. We are reaping some of the small, commercial benefits now - from contributions from Cisco's high speed hardware, and security from the work of Cerias at Purdue. Universities were looking to the future at different business models in case the college campus became impractical or obsolete as an educational delivery system. This was a jump on plan 'B'. At the same time, POI (plain old Internet) has been gaining ground in the research area. Although individual research is extremely expensive (even though much of it is free), the research libraries at universities have the power of size and $ in negotiation with technical and scientific publishing houses. This helps keep universities viable, and the publishing enterprises profitable - a win-win for these stakeholders. The underlying business model of research, education and knowledge is alive and adapting to the competition posed from POI commons. From the perspective of traditional education, it is kind of like learning to live with diabetes - if you don't manage it, it can kill you - meaning you can't take it for "granted". The dynamics and complexities of the flow of education and knowledge in a global economy is at the heart of many of the US's problems. Specifically, knowledge has gone from being a scarce resource to becoming a global commodity. The value of purveying knowledge must be balanced with the value to society from consuming (applying) knowledge. Tattered, cardboard sign from the near future: "PhD. Will teach physics for food." ============================= Kenneth A. Lloyd CEO and Director of Systems Science Watt Systems Technologies Inc. Albuquerque, NM USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - MBSE Complex, Adaptive & Stochastic Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Director of Education www.wattsys.com <http://www.wattsys.com/> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/9a/824> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/9a/824
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