Bill Gates: web will be better than college
August 18, 2010 | 12:43 AM | By Tina Barseghian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Qg80MVvYs&feature=player_embedded
Last week’s hubbub over Bill Gates’ quote at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe:
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.”
[Via TechCrunch]
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