Universities have been "dying" for hundreds of years. Please call me when they stop existing! Whenever there is a new technology (printing press, cinema, TV, co

Universities have been "dying" for hundreds of years. Please call me when they stop existing! Whenever there is a new technology (printing press, cinema, TV, computers, internet) there will be someone saying that universities are old-fashioned and useless. Of course, this never happens, because there is always a need for institutions of knowledge, in one way or another. For example, people buying into the internet-crazy think that everything can be replaced by the Internet. Media companies (music, cinema, book publishing) were supposed to be dead at least a decade ago. It turns out that in reality they are bigger than before. What people forget is that the Internet doesn't create things by itself. Good movies will continue to be produced by specialized companies, good books will continue to be published by specialized publishers, and so on. Only the technology changes, but human needs continue the same. Similarly, universities will be just fine in a century or more. They will adapt to the new technologies and continue to produce knowledge as they have done before.