They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Right, because the last thing this country needs is a populace with a better command of math.

I'm afraid to ask him his opinion on the state of math education.

Charles Widmore will not be happy to hear this news.

Nice to see Darl McBride landed on his feet and got a job working for Xerox. :-P

Seriously, is this the litmus test for tech companies that are circling the drain?

What I find interesting in this discussion is that everyone is obsessing over the technology aspects of the decision (which I suppose is natural for fans of this site), but nobody has speculated about the impact this might have on the existing highly corrupt process of textbook selection. For some background, see "Lies My Teacher Told Me" (ISBN 978-0743296281) and Richard Feynman's account of his aborted attempt to sit on a textbook selection committee for the state of California (http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm). The material may be a bit dated, but I'm not sure how much change has taken place since those anecdotes were written.