Artificial intelligence can already write stories based on data. The computer digests numbers and words then writes a report or an articles, based on what you want the computer to write. Forbers and Associated Press are two examples of sites already employing this tecnology.
For a digital heaven, where anyone can learn anything, computers have to be the ones producing the content. Google already indexed around 60 trillion unique pages of content. Most of that content, probably, was not written by humans. That would of each person writing 8571 articles. Google mentions that all those pages are unique. I think that most of that content is computer written content, such as public pages of huge online stores with millions of products to display. That's still information, but not information in the form of teaching and learning. The aim is to describe the product, machines can do it perfectly.
For knowledge and information, the machines will probably ingest and digest all the public statistics and numbers published across the internet and write reports and articles with all that info, combining it with videos, images and links to even more content. That would be the digital heaven. Anything you can think and imagine, a search engine indexed, you can search for it and that info is free (probably ad supported).
How long will it take to reach the digital heaven? Probably another ten to twenty years, depending how a company is going to be profitable producing all that content. Even if it's ad supported, such technology might be too expensive in terms of computer power. As years go by, CPUs get cheaper and more powerful. Each new years increases the potential of such a company.
Can't wait to see that day :)
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