/lit/ - Literature

>>15439604
I'm a bit scared about the future of universities and of "studenthood".

with so many universities moving almost entirely online, the experience of being a student in the future will be completely different.
in the best case scenario we'll have socially distanced campuses with only a fraction of the students; and more likely, the whole university experience will turn into a series of online courses you can do from your bedroom, leaving campuses completely empty and removing the whole social aspect of university.
this will not only have a massive impact on cities and the neighborhoods kept alive by student life, but it will leave a permanent mark on an entire generation, in a way ridding it of its youth..
this process had already started before the Coronavirus came along and is pretty obvious in Anglo countries where 1968-style student movements and all of that are mostly things of the past, but the change we're facing now is on a much larger scale, and I'm a bit scared of its consequences.
I understand that this change applies mainly to a few specific social classes, but it will have repercussions on future culture as a whole (not necessarily in a bad way, mind you), and on a level that goes beyond the example of unis and education, I am very skeptical about the digital tyranny that we are being forced to accept and that is causing these unprecedented shifts..
I'm curious to see what the future holds.

uh