The news these days is filled with headlines lamenting the high cost of college. Tuition and board at top schools now exceed $50,000 per year. Upon graduation, the average student is $25,250 in the red, according to a report from the Project on Student Debt, while the total of the nation's college debt now exceeds $1 trillion. So what exactly is the role of technology in all of this? Has technology managed to keep costs from rising even faster, or are schools guilty of using technology--whether they're issuing students iPads or offering premium movies in residences--as one more weapon in an institutional arms race? With students drowning in debt, this article examines the role of technology in the overall cost of a college education--and its potential for reversing a pricing model that is unsustainable.