Scripting News: What if a university like Harvard, not just a few students, got busy mapping the world of knowledge on the Internet. Each student would take responsibility for some period of time for some aspect of world knowledge. When they graduate they pass it on, or even better, take the responsibility with them, into life. Does any of this make sense?

Mapping knowledge is definitely going to be the next big thing. While we are investigating new ways to create contents that are already mapped or that could easily be mapped using smart software and flexible standards, mapping the knowledge already available is going to be a huge challenge.

Universities could help, in theory they have a huge concentration of intelligent people who doesn't necessarily have to be paid to do knowledge work. Specialized universities could take the responsibility to manage knowledge mapping of vertical sectors of current knowledge.

This will require some new tools/standards to be developed and it's definitely going to be an interesting challenge.