Headed to a university near you – Disruption. But not in the way you might expect. Most believe it will be the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that forever changes the landscape of higher education – but something much more close to all of us will be the demise. For years the college degree has been the path of success. The colleges said it was the path, and the culture followed suits pouring their hard earned (or borrowed) money into a college education for us and our children.

Science fiction has a bizarre habit of predicting our future. Star Trek famously predicted sliding doors, and Minority Report forecasted the use of gestures as part of user experiences. If only the genre could be so optimistic about artificial intelligence (AI). Over the last twenty years, technology's progress has twinned with some utterly devastating views on how AI could ultimately impact human lives. The likes of 2001: Space Odyssey, The Terminator, The Matrix, Westworld and even i-Robot all presented automation and machine learning as ultimately terrifying prospects; innovations that would bring about our eventual demise.