So the Chronicle of Higher Education just published a piece entitled "What if we ran universities like Wikipedia?" or somesuch.
Now as a general rule, I like the Chronicle but in a totally non-judgmental way, what I find really odd about the piece is that it reads like its author is a Cory Doctorow fan. After all, it was Doctorow who described the "ad hoc university" system in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Doctorow's book is brilliant and deserves all the awards it got. I love it and have cited it in academic presentations and papers.
On the other hand, I do not take it as a prescription for how to solve the problems of academia (of which there are admittedly many).
I wonder why the folks at the Chronicle have done so.
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