Who needs profs when you have computers?

Some of the more sci-fi conjecturing in this story don't make a lot of sense to me, but when they point out how revolutionary computers have been just in the last decade in how we in the academy operate, I wonder whether these ideas are more than mere flights of fancy.

http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i14/14a01301.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en