JAN: Well.....I have to believe that we will be "Just in time".....developers can't be pessimists, nor cynics....but we can't be dreamers only. Even though a respected colleague Eli Noam of Columbia University has given up on collaboration as a strategy for public institutions..."Every tub on its bottom is how he puts it". I haven't! I think that organizations like ADEC that are of, but outside the traditional educational towers can help us take what's best from our institutions historically-families, schools, universities, governments. Ann Swidler, a professor of sociology at U. of CA. Berkeley argued in an excellent Chronicle of Higher Ed article in May that even though most of the American public currently seems hostile to institutions we will lose a great deal if we "Throw the baby out with the bath water." Institutions embody and keep alive shared principles. They obligate us to purposes larger than ourselves. They connect us to a past. I am deeply concerned that the "wrong type" of privatization for profit motives and cream skimming will fragment and diminish any holistic commitment to the creation and perpetuation of knowledge. I think we will only be "just in time" if we can build global learning institutions. Institutions are necessary--without them we diminish our responsibility and connection to others....we can't just sabotage what we have and then refuse to build something new.