- Takes much less time to earn, 6 months rather than years
- Classes and material delivered online, on demand
- Focus on applied, modern technology
- Obsolete content eliminated (differential equations or eigenvalues in our case)
- Rules of thumb, tricks of the trade, craftmanship, real implementations, practical advice integrated into training material
- Cost little or is free, no need to take on large loans
- Possibly sponsored or co-organised by corporations or forward thinking universities
- No more knowledge silos (e.g. operations research vs. statistics vs. business analytics)
- Requires working on actual, real-world projects (collaboration encouraged) rather than passing exams
- Highly compact, well summarized training material, pointing to selected free online resources as necessary
- Apprenticeship replaces Ph.D. programs
- Substantial help in finding a good, well paid relevant job (fee and successful completion of program required; no fee if program sponsored by a corporation: they will hire you)
- Open to everyone regardless of prior education, language, age, immigration status, wealth or country of residence
- Yet more rigorous than current programs
- Cheating or plagiarism not a concern anymore, as emphasis is NOT on regurgitating book content
Stanford computer science students on a trip in the Sierra Nevada, for character and team building
The new professor
- Not tenured, not adjunct either
- In many cases, not employed by a traditional University
- Cross-discipline expert who constantly adapts to change, and indeed brings meaningful change
- Well connected with industry leaders
- More respected and known than many tenured full professors
- Works in corporate world, or independently (consultant, modern digital publisher)
- Publishes research results and other material in online blogs (much faster way to make scientific progress)
- Does not waste time writing grant proposals
- Faces little if any bureaucracy
- Does not waste time publishing in traditional journals
- Works from home in some cases, eliminating the dual-career penalty faced by PhD married couples
- Has lot of freedom in research activities, although might favor lucrative projects which help him earn revenue
- Develops open, publicly shared knowledge rather than patents; widely disseminates knowledge
- In some cases, has direct access to market
- Earns more money than tenured full professors
- Might not have a Ph.D.
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