The Digital Education Revolution

Education is finally succumbing to the same forces that have upended countless industries from retail to recreation. The digital education revolution is commoditizing most forms of learning, as well it should. The Internet is far more efficient and effective at delivering mathematics and coding lessons than a classroom lecture environment, and it is far less …

Agile Education Manifesto

As we are in the process of raising capital to launch Exosphere in Valparaiso, Chile and recruit the rest of our founding fellows, we are also continuing to develop the theoretical framework behind what we are doing and to make it available to others who want to do likewise. The following is the First Draft […]

Why Chile?

One of the most common questions that arises when discussing Exosphere with people from the US and Europe is “why are you doing this in Chile?” For many reasons we believe Chile is the ideal place to begin Exosphere and are confident that it will always be our primary home, even if we do expand…

Socialism or Entrepreneurship: Chile’s Choice

Capitalism has irrevocably altered the politics and culture of Latin America. It has propelled Chile to second world status, it has awakened Brazil from an eternal slumber and turned it into a global power and regional counterweight to the United States. On the other side of the spectrum it pushed Venezuela to actively rebel against …

The Cure for Cancer is in the Rainforest

This could well be the case, but it is likely not in some undiscovered plant or unknown insect. If the cure for cancer is in the rainforest, it is most likely in the mind of some undiscovered person whose talents will never be known and whose abilities will never be given the opportunity to be…

Harvard Makes the World Poor

Now that I’ve gotten your attention…Yes, Harvard is making the world poor, or rather keeping us poor. Let me qualify…There is nothing malicious about the people who teach at or graduate from Harvard University (and its imitators, Sorry Yale…). I know lots of people who have elite degrees from elite universities and I can say […]

We recently looked at the staggering figures of IQ distribution in the world and the dire mismatch between where the intellectual talent is and where the elite universities are. Today we are going look at another way that the higher education market is severely distorted, and how those distortions have tremendous negative implications for society …