The Silicon Porch: Conversations on the End of the Ivy Walls

By Kalyan Charan VSG

The Silicon Porch argues that education is not collapsing-it is shedding a century-old industrial skin. Through a series of intimate, sharply argued porch conversations among an educator, an AI architect, an HR leader, an activist, and a strategist, the book examines how artificial intelligence, credential unbundling, wellness culture, and demographic decline are dismantling the traditional prestige-based education model.
Rather than offering a manifesto or a purely academic treatise, the book blends storytelling, data, dialogue, and theory to show how institutions must evolve from rigid factories into adaptive "Fluid Academies." The porch becomes both a literal setting and a metaphor: a liminal space where ideas move from abstraction to application.
This book is written for readers who sense that education's defaults have changed-but lack a coherent framework to understand what comes next.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF672CTF
• ISBN13: 9798242271593
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"