The Screen: a scary picture

The great, open online university with students sitting in front of computers all day does not seem to be as successful as some people predicted.

Almost overnight there appears to be the whiff of cultural revolt in the air. It’s as if all those dreary modernist mantras like “there is no alternative”, “progress” and variations on the “end of history” have come, if not to a shud­dering halt, then certainly to an enormous speed bump.