Google University

Google labs has generated so many gadgets worthy of hours of manically toying with it's not far from beginning a university. Probably not, but who knows. However, staying in the same omnipotent-Google cloud, shouldn't the future of education be less memorization of facts, history, math, etc., and more know how on practical usage of the ample information that's easily a click away. For our children the Internet will be as common as a bicycle. It's seems that way now but there are still the under privileged, unconnected areas (Mid-West, probably Alabama), anti-techies, and so on. Ten years from now at the slight-speed pace the tech world moves, imagine how connected we will be. Like it or not. I tended to side with "where is the line drawn?" crowd in the Internet connectivity debate. But, evidently the Internet won out. The world shifts and we can hop on board or be left behind. Education should be one of society's first sectors to hop on. Historically, the higher the education the better off you were financially and socially, generally speaking. Still, it was not, and still but to a lesser extent, available to all. A wall had to be broken albeit hard-work, money or prestige to achieve higher levels of education. The Internet is quickly hammering these wall down. If I go on iTunes Podcast I can listen to luminaries from around the world speaking on economics, chemistry, politics, literature, etc. Top universities such as MIT broadcast lectures some bright kids are paying a fine salary for. Educational Web sites, trusty blog are a dime a dozen. Essentially we are paying thousands of dollars for a certificate of acknowledgement and wasting time.
The Internet could be a solution instead of a supplement to education. If all is soon to be online and all to be connected wirelessly the "human element" for higher education will not be needed.