Disruptive Diploma

What would a disruptive diploma look like?

I recall having read an essay on what independent school graduates would be faced with in 2020, just over nine years from this writing. The author asserted that our graduates would have to acquire a Master's degree in order to be considered competent in their field, the implication being that a Bachelor's degree would no longer be sufficient.

What is the point, then, of a diploma, if it (apparently) is worth so little? Just as we have grade inflation in education, so too we have diploma (or degree) inflation. Why would a graduate have to earn a Master's degree as a minimum? How sad, since that view only underscores how much grade inflation has taken place in education. Grade inflation is leading (has led already, I would argue) to diploma inflation. Degrees are ubiquitous, which can be good or bad, depending on your perspective.

If we will grant even more of them, to the point of the Bachelor degree becoming less meaningful, how do we act to make them more meaningful? The answer must lie in some sort of disruption to the traditional, linear diploma/degree program. I wonder what that might be.