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Within decades, the emerging Distributed Multimedia Technology (DMT) will cause major changesin the global economy and in the social and political structures. The inevitable metamorphosis of the‘knowledge industry’, which schools and universities are part of, should be particularly dramatic.Short-term economic arguments suggest that the physical and administrative structures defininginstitutions of higher learning today may soon become redundant as knowledge becomes a fluentcommodity for ‘just in time’ delivery. Opposing this trend is the considerable inertia of theeducational system, its internal power structures, and the limited technological knowledge of theeducators. Calling for moderation are also theoretical arguments representing traditional academic andmoral values.