"Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world" This is already true--for just one example, see academicearth.o

"Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world" This is already true--for just one example, see academicearth.org. I suppose Bill has to make it a prediction for the future for the press to be able to digest it. I often tell people how absurd modern education is given the existence of video lectures (and the printing press, for that matter). They usually tell me that video lectures aren't a replacement for live lectures. When I ask if they've actually watched any video lectures, they usually haven't. Best advantage of video lectures: I can download them with the netvideohunter firefox extension and watch them 1.5x speed in VLC, which actually improves my comprehension because I'm less bored. Free textbooks are probably even better. I'm too busy with my side project to study, but here are two that look AWESOME: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html http://www.introecon.com/ http://www.introecon.com/ I'll be playing my fiddle when the educational establishment burns.