As the costs of bricks and mortar based learning experiences skyrocket, companies increasingly are turning to technology to deliver training and education. Quality Dynamics predicts by the year 2000, half of all corporate training will be delivered via technology. More and more of that funding is going into distance learning. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure requiring organizations testifying on any subject to disclose all federal grants and contracts they have received in the past three years. Recently, the Foundation Center, a publisher of information about foundations and grantmaking, redesigned its World Wide Web site.
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Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Already we are beginning to deliver more lectures and classes off campus via satellite or two-way video at a fraction of the cost. The college won't survive as a residential institution.