Exactly, the next question is, having realised that, how will they respond.Businessweek Wants To Teach You Graphic Design "At first I am appalled. Who is Businessweek to think that they can turn someone into a Graphic Designer in two weeks? I’ve spent years toiling in this craft with a formal education to boot. Then it hit me. This isn’t about teaching design as much as it is embracing an inevitable reality. Today, everyone has the ability to be an editor, designer, artist, director or producer."
My wife teaches at the University of Sydney and we have had some interesting discussions about how the system bootstraps and validates itself, to achieve ever higher standards of teaching and learning; and then maintains those standards without any actual external authority.
We have also seen the neoliberals bring in their economic rationalism and progressively undermine exactly those standards in the name of efficiency and "businesslike approaches", leading inexorably to degraded standards and corrupt practices.
In a Networked World all validation will have to take place in full public view; reputation will be everything, and under constant assault. Those who succeed will start out at a place close to where George finds himself right now, with a flash of realisation that authority, which resides in the author, is being replaced by recognition, which resides in the reader.
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