Systems, philosophy, and craftsmanship for a post-industrial life.
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The Post Academic Era
The Post-Academic Era: 4 Speculative Structures to Replace the University The “Prussian model” of education—standardized, centralized, and bureaucratic—is hitting a wall of diminishing returns. We are witnessing a crisis of saturation: degrees have lowered their signal value, administrative costs have skyrocketed, and the pace of institutional research lags behind the speed of modern innovation. If we accept that AI commoditizes information transfer (rendering the lecture hall obsolete), the value of a physical university shifts away from “access to knowledge” and toward verification, community, and high-capital resource access. ...
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