The Academic Ether

How many physical schools will survive in the age of edX, Udacity, and the like? Or, to quote this BBC story, "As Nicholas Negroponte, the founder and chairman of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, asked in a September article for the MIT Technology Review: 'If kids in Ethiopia learn to read without school, what does that say about kids in New York City who do not learn even with school?' ": http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121123-can-schools-survive-the-web-age/1