{"id":402,"date":"2010-10-12T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-10-12T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:47:37","slug":"dead-institutions-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2010\/10\/12\/dead-institutions-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead institutions walking."},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> reads like a radical anti-egalitarian manifesto by some young, smart but inexperienced Internet-based firebrand. Wikipedia is way cool! Universities are dead institutions walking! We’ll all learn off the web! Social networks will replace campuses! You know the sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Then I got to the end and my jaw dropped when I saw what the author does for a living. Try to read the article without skipping to the end, scrolling down carefully without jumping ahead, it’s worth it.<\/p>\n

So. What do we do to distinguish experts from non-experts when we no longer even have credentials as a marker of expertise? (e.g. there’s not a vast reserve of commercial positions for pure philosophers.)<\/p>\n

I wonder if Lord Browne<\/a> has heard about this yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This reads like a radical anti-egalitarian manifesto by some young, smart but inexperienced Internet-based firebrand. Wikipedia is way cool! Universities are dead institutions walking! We’ll all learn off the web! Social networks will replace campuses! You know the sort of thing. Then I got to the end and my jaw dropped when I saw what … Continue reading “Dead institutions walking.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-6u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}