An Appademic Ascension

                                 Think about the state of music 300 years ago. 

No radio, no records, no CDs, no MP3s, no iTunes nor Spotifies. Music - like just about everything - has been disrupted and advanced by technological invention. Education has not yet been disrupted and advanced in such a significant way. So what is in store? 

        Ironically, a credit store -

                many credit stores offered by many digital school ecosystems, in fact -

                       the apotheosis of academics into appademics. 

Granted, many skills require direct, physical, or kinesthetic cultivation. Many also do not. Take law, for instance. Now imagine learning the law by reading it, and being able to prove how much of it you have learned, retained, mastered by means of some technology that is to learning the language of law what Duolingo is to learning any foreign language. 

In this future, you will have immediate access to all knowledge, skills, disciplines, and the degrees officially representing your mastery of them. The educational ecosystem will consist of private and public organizations allowing anyone to afford online, accredited education wherein the prestige or exclusivity of one's school no longer means anything, but instead, simply, what percentage of any given skill or area of knowledge one demonstrates to know via using this new technology. In other words, it will not matter if you learned the law via Harvard or Coursera:

What will matter is your actual merit, how much of the law you technically demonstrate to know. The entire accreditation system and process will be aligned with this principle.