Knowledge‑Monopoly Dissolution

When technologies democratize knowledge reproduction, institutions built on gatekeeping (scriptoria, universities, legacy media) lose legitimacy and face dismantling or repurposing, often under moral or efficiency pretexts. — Frames AI’s impact on higher ed and professional guilds as a structural end to access-based rents, guiding policy debates on funding, credentialing, and which institutional functions must be preserved vs. wound down.