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by motohagiography
1241 days ago
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That's a positive development. It seems reasonable to predict that something that was only available to an elite class of people would be among the first things that we would all optimize our innovation for, to make the content of college courses available to everyone else. As the effect of simple demand and innovation, the ability of colleges and universities to confer durably elite status on their graduates can only get decimated each year. Knowledge used to be an honest signal of social status, but it just isn't anymore. It's great though because we have generally more knowledgable people everywhere who can apply incredible tools, and it lifts all boats. However the colleges and universities will need a new way to corner the market on conferring elite status, as I think their v1.0 product of producing graduates merely aligned to "theory" hasn't really worked or produced anything that commands popular respect. Sure, we fear for our jobs, but there is no willingness, and the biggest problem the social studies grads who have taken the helms of institutions have now is suppressing mockery of themselves online. But they're smart people, I'm sure they'll figure something out. May a hundred flowers blossom. |
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While historically colleges and universities might have been concerned about that, they gave up on that business model many decades ago. The modern business model of colleges and universities is to provide a dating network comprised of similarly-aged, like-minded people who all reside in close proximity to each other.
While services like Tinder could pose some threat to that, I think you'll find that such services have only served to enhance that college network by providing greater discoverability within that network. The "all reside in close proximity to each other" feature offered by colleges is an important feature. The reality is that most people aren't otherwise going to travel cross-country to find their match. These Tinder-like services haven't figured out how to solve for that part on their own, leaning heavily on proximity that already exists.
So, I don't think there is any immediate threat on the horizon for colleges and universities.