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Blogs Liberty and Power The Future Is Not Like the Past

Apr 23, 2010

The Future Is Not Like the Past

by Liberty and Power

This post is not about past history but about the future--the future of higher education. Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma, offers us a way to think about how a"disruptive technology" like online education can destroy a system, perhaps even a university system. For details, see my article "The Iceman Cometh" on the Pope Center website.