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In summary then, the universities are older than parliament and during that long history have been undergoing continual change in concert with society. The challenge has always been to balance the long-term responsibilities that universities have to society against the short-term ones.

Universities will become more efficient in their internal administration largely through technological innovation and hardly at all because of scientific management.

Finally, the internet does represent a fundamentally new opportunity for universities to connect with society - both the general public and the world community of scholars. The vision to pursue however is not that of a virtual university but rather to look to that important scholarly institution older than a university and to create a virtual library.