[Eisenhower Republican]

“Universities gone because we move back to apprentices.”

If only that were so. The requirements, both in terms of education and experience, for finding work or being self-employed are just going to continue skyrocketing upwards. A few years from now, a simple engineering degree will be considered passe the way a HS diploma is now. You’ll likely need some type of advanced degree in addition to an apprenticeship to be valuable enough to be employed/self-employed.

Also - gov’t and large businesses are the entities best equipped to rapidly scale new technology, so I wouldn’t count on their power diminishing any time soon. Any hope of decentralization would be through social or political action. Economics simply doesn’t favor it over the long haul. I found Trump’s comments on dusting off the Sherman Act intriguing. Let’s hope it wasn’t just bluster.

[Garth Tater]

Also - gov’t and large businesses are the entities best equipped to rapidly scale new technology, so I wouldn’t count on their power diminishing any time soon.

That would sort of depend on which direction you're scaling, wouldn't it?

And it's really not so much the govt and large businesses' capabilities that are important here as it is the fact that smaller entities are now capable of doing with these new technologies what only large scale enterprises were previously able to do. New tools, new methods and new materials, when priced as cheaply as these are, favor the nimble and the imaginative not the large and the bureaucratic.