To do so, a hypothetical assignment was put onto the participants: to create, from scratch, a brand new university for an imaginary country. If there is abundance of content and knowledgeable people, how do universities, schools, libraries, etc. Why, if I learn 24×7 (because my brain just won’t stop — what I learn is another debate), should I limit my learning to a specific place (school, university…) and a specific time (class hours)? We are witnessing a move towards de-institutionalization, from an education that works for the institution towards institutions that work for education, or from a democracy that works for parties and governments or parties and governments that work for democracy.

Never mind him working in a parallel universe, I think it’s probably more tangential. I wrote a week or so ago about what I wanted to get from South by South West. Now it’s all over, the hangover has faded but the jetlag is lingering longer than would be ideal, there are a few observations from my first sxsw that I would like to share. The standout moment for me was Clay Shirky’s talk

Although the genesis of relations of P2P production in the spheres of free software and cultural production was a bottom up process and was established through legal forms embracing universal property as the Creative Commons, for example), this was made possible because the fundamental prerequisite of the existence of distributed stable capital was already accomplished, via the use of distributed computational power and of a medium (internet) through which, at a low cost, producers could self-organize. The creation of stock companies with transferable shares should not be subsidized and