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In the Internet age, clans can be worldwide, and in every conceivable area of human endeavor. They will be able to assess the skills of everyone claiming membership, and have ranking systems which may someday be the equivalent of college degrees. This decentralized system will be far more reliable in terms of getting a sense of someone's capabilities than the current, centralized, expensive, system of colleges and universities.
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