From The Atlantic:

If George Mason economist and Marginal Revolution blogger Tyler Cowen is right, higher education is about to go the way of the record company. Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, he offered up college as the next in a long line of industries that Internet-enabled innovation is going to scramble. 

Okay, but why was Tyler being paid to speak in person at the expensive Aspen Ideas Festival (run by The Atlantic, by the way) at a remote location in the mountains? Why didn't his audience just read his insight for free on Tyler's blog?

Could it be that going to college is kind of like going to the Aspen Ideas Festival, but with less hypoxia?