I don't agree with all of the details, but I think the author is dead on with his point. I've been thinking for a while now that in about 5 years people will be

I don't agree with all of the details, but I think the author is dead on with his point. I've been thinking for a while now that in about 5 years people will be asking "How do we save the universities?" instead of "How do we save the newspapers?". The biggest difference is that the initial costs for an education startup are orders of magnitude larger than the costs to start a news aggregator. Still, it's only a matter of time before someone figures out a clever hack or a big enough tech name makes a serious effort at solving the problem. I don't think major educational institutions will disappear any more than I think that the New York Times will close up shop. The college experience can't be replaced by online classes. But if a less expensive alternative existed, a lot of people would probably take advantage of it. The more people that get degrees online, the more accepted they'll become.