I sure hope we as a society figure out a way to make college campuses (and physical presence of students) largely unnecessary eventually. I don't expect it to h

I sure hope we as a society figure out a way to make college campuses (and physical presence of students) largely unnecessary eventually. I don't expect it to happen in a year, but in-person lectures seemed ridiculous to me 25 years ago, and they seem even more so now when there's abundance of tech and anyone can record 4K videos of arbitrary length. Most of those lectures also sucked ass, since they were slow-moving, but if your attention lapses for like 3 minutes of a difficult lecture, you're lost for the rest of the lecture and there's no way to rewind and listen again. That's not to mention the time spent writing on the chalkboard and speaking - you could take in the same amount of information from a book at easily 3-4x the speed, leaving more time to do practical work that actually helps build the skills. Of course one still needs to be able to go to labs if one is doing research, but those could be bolstered by not investing in auditoriums, halls, cafes, and other physical infrastructure. It'd also be great (in the US) to shut down all the sports programs. They're like this weird benign tumor on the side of large schools which costs money and does not provide educational value.