Just When I Was Getting Ready To Convert To Cyber Utopianism--

This Foreign Policy article made me get all warm and cynical again.  The whole article is worth a read, but this summary says it all.

Two decades in, the Internet has neither brought down dictators nor eliminated borders. It has certainly not ushered in a post-political age of rational and data-driven policymaking. It has sped up and amplified many existing forces at work in the world, often making politics more combustible and unpredictable. Increasingly, the Internet looks like a hypercharged version of the real world, with all of its promise and perils, while the cyberutopia that the early Web enthusiasts predicted seems ever more illusory.

Oh well, I'm sure some administrator will figure out how to make the Internet revolutionize education and make teachers unnecessary.