content: We are approaching a post-academic age in many respects. I'd like to think that the academy will stay intact where it concerns STEM, but I don't even know. If the schools decline much more than they are now, you'll see a basic breakdown in the format itself. The humanities are already fucked. I'm just curious as to whether it will take the entire ship down. Economic arguments by themselves are doing a good enough job. Even if you consider the way many people are learning now, their preferences for learning, and effectiveness, it's just becoming obvious we're looking at an outmoded institution anyway, except again, in those very rigorous fields where your work is going to literally put lives at stake and you need exposure to the labs and subject matter experts.