raghu wrote:
> All of this is true, but beneath all this hype there is some substance
> which I think really is interesting and potentially revolutionary. The
> Harvard/MIT EdX initiative really is exciting. Already the open
> courseware initiatives of various institutions have created a treasure
> trove of very high quality educational content, which really has the
> potential to benefit the whole world.

I'd bet that when the dust settles, the whole thing still requires
in-person help from professors or some other kind of mentor. Of
course, the high-price tenure-track type will likely be replaced by
adjuncts.

> We can only hope that some idiot Goldman Sachs partner does not ruin
> it all with some hare-brained "business plan".

chances are that one of them will. Finance rules and Goldman rules finance!
-- 
Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they
are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality." -- Albert Einstein
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