There is a famous nine dot problem that cannot be solved unless you break its imagined boundaries — you have to “think outside the box.” But by pinning its mission to the phrase “reform in education,” the new publication Bright is trapping itself inside the box.
While some useful ideas may come out of Bright, it is likely to miss the real revolution that is fast unfolding: That is, the end of academia and its replacement by a completely new medium attuned to the science, technology, and demands of the Knowledge Age economy.
