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The Third Nexus

What a university is for when the content is free.

writing print now Three times the ground under the university has shifted. It has yet to hurry.

Seven pieces, in the first person, on what a university is for when the content is free. Two on why I got interested. Five on what I think the future could mean for it.

Why I got interested

how it started
  1. • Why a shrimp company got me interested in education A food-scenarios project, a twenty-five-year horizon, and the one thing everyone says they want for their kids.
  2. • The way to the symposium From a private worry to a panel on employability and the future of work. soon

My thinking

what the future could mean for the university
  1. I What is a university for when the content is free? Almost everything it teaches is now free. So what is university for? soon
  2. II Three times the ground has shifted The guild, the fear of writing, the printing press, Humboldt. soon
  3. III What's gone, and what's gone with it The content is free, and the forming is undone. Two vacancies, not one. soon
  4. IV How you'd actually build it Real work, real dependence, honest feedback — and the sequence that makes them count. soon
  5. V Two systems, and what it's for Berlin against Melbourne, the open question, and what, in the end, it is all for. soon