The Great Fragmentation. Then I recalled this blog post from University Ventures which wonders whether "colleges and universities are the next object of the Great Unbundling.
" This is what Dale Stephens of Uncollege has been saying to me for a while - that education is being unbundled into its component parts: content, teachers, credentials,community, physical campus, mentors, hiring and network. Then I remembered this wonderful essay Jason Epstein wrote in the New York Review of Books ("How Books Will Survive Amazon") which suggests that the broad general based publishing industry is at odds with the Internet network: "Specificity, reflecting the structure of the web, will matter: a guide to the cultivation of daffodils will more likely succeed than a more diffuse gardening title.
" Investment Thesis @USV. The State Of The Internet [SLIDE DECK]