Useless Universities

What happened to university? Is there still value in a university degree? Does university still teach you how to think? Is there still such a thing as the "Oxford Manner"? Would you send your children to a university? Are they broken, can they be salvaged?

What should you do to prepare for an increasingly technical and complex world? As more tasks become mechanised, jobs require higher order strategic thinking. How do you learn to think outside the box, when you have don't start by learning what the box is?

Resources
Economic value of a degree
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/careers/is-it-worth-going-to-university/news-story/2e2e2def7088659eba9b5a647ba8c50a
https://year13.com.au/uni-worth-money/
http://world.edu/state-university-recruiter-sell-worthless-degrees/

Cultural Value
https://quillette.com/2017/12/21/time-marginalize-university-revive-cafe/
https://quillette.com/2017/12/18/activists-took-control-university-case-study-evergreen-state/
https://ipa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IPA-Report-Free-Speech-on-Campus-Audit-2017.pdf
https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/no-room-for-differing-views?highlight=University
https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/at-uni-with-mrs-potato-head?highlight=University
https://ipa.org.au/publications-ipa/media-releases/rise-identity-politics-audit-history-teaching-australian-universities-2017

What does the future hold?
Harari on AI (21 Lessons for the 21st Century)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbjQGooiJNs
http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/07/20/yuval-noah-harari-21-lessons-from-data-meditation-to-ai-and-black-mirror.html

Elon Musk on JRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI

AI and the Future of Work
https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2018/08/18/there-is-work-to-be-done-ai-and-the-future-of-work/#1e[masked]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvNhrFOT50

Jobs in growth/jobs in decline
https://joboutlook.gov.au/FutureOfWork.aspx