On August 26, 2015 the adapted learning company Knewton announced “the world’s first and only open adaptive learning platform.” The company contended that it is a genius robot tutor in the cloud, taking the best traits of a human tutor, free, on-demand, and available to the world (email from Jose Ferreira, August 26, 2015). Adapted learning is a hot topic today because of the availability of recent grant money, emergence of sophisticated adapted learning software, and partnerships with schools and content providers (Waters, 2014). Has a confluence of factors come together to make this a transformative technology in education, just as Google was a transformative force in advertising (Parry, 2012)?