Yet its rapid uptake since 1994, when access to the Internet first spread beyond China's eliteacademic and scientific circles, suggests demand will be huge.
But Keynes then, and Soros now, believed that principles tried and proven and received gratefully from the loving hands of past generations were to be replaced by an elite of academic planners.
Recent cheating scandals, at Harvard University and elite Manhattan public high school Stuyvesant, have brought new attention to the increasingly grey area of academic integrity.