No, not that college kid driving Uber. I'm talking about the philosophical drivers of online education. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/philosophical-not-financial-drivers-online-education
Online education has been a game changer. Maybe not in the same league as the discovery of penicillin but pretty close.
As a proponent of online education I want to agree with this. My first reaction though was that it was a real reach. Why? Because correspondence education existed before it, but penicillin... it's not close.