And they always focus on classroom activities of professors, never on the functions professors serve in formulating, refining, and transmitting knowledge through rhetorical processes and responses. They seem to assume that students will be fitted with electrode connectors and will require only classroom attendants who can plug them into the flow of electrons.
Technology is merely a tool.
When it becomes a replacement for human enterprise, higher learning will be irrelevant to the culture. For those who may eventually wish to escape a global culture transformed into a micro-chip controlled ant colony, technology promises a few outposts like MIR where we might go to read, and talk, and reflect, and write. While some are inventing ways to vaporize the professoriate, others of us are still busy inventing America and all the processes needed to keep it working. Check this box if you would like this submission to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor in the printed Chronicle. Be sure to include your name and affiliation.