> The whole prestige of academia isn't access to information: internet has more academic content than any university This is not the case at all for many field

> The whole prestige of academia isn't access to information: internet has more academic content than any university This is not the case at all for many fields. In my branch of linguistics, for example, the majority of important literature is not available online. A person cannot teach themselves this field; you need access to the print resources in a large library at a handful of universities. Now, since the dawn of ebook sharing sites, my colleagues and I have been gradually scanning resources and uploading them to Libgen or the like, but progress is slow and we have barely scratched the surface.