[yason]

I'm not worried. Good programmers read SICP on their spare time if they don't have to do it in school. If they haven't heard of SICP, they will once they'll join the company of other good programmers and probably find it interesting. On the other hand you can't force material on people who reject it because they don't understand it.

It's just the question of where do we need universities at all when everything valuable is replaced with ever-easier material? Of course, the marginal number of people who actually want to become academics in CS will be needing universities, but that would amount to 1/10th or likely less of current CS student population.