William Gibson said: “The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.” This is particularly apt for the future university: many universities already offer many or all of the educational elements described above, and most are not new. Cooperative education started over a century ago in the United States. The first “lab” classes in the social sciences are decades old. Teaching the use of good questions to refine thinking is an education practice that dates back to Socrates. Even new models, like the design workshop, have been around for more than a decade.