EDGE Question 2008: What have you changed your mind about?

I've been traveling in Central America for the past few weeks, so I'm late on blogging a number of things — including this. Each year, EDGE.org's John Brockman asks a new question, and a bunch of tech/sci/internet folks reply. This year's question: What have you changed your mind about?

Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your mind?

Link.

I was one of the 165 participants, and wrote about what I learned from Boing Boing's community experiments, under the guidance of our community manager Teresa Nielsen Hayden: Link to "Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands."

Here's a partial link-list of my favorite contributions from others:

Tor Nørretranders, W. Daniel Hillis, Ray Kurzweil, David
Gelernter
, Kai
Krause
, Clay Shirky, J.
Craig Venter
, Simon
Baron-Cohen
, Jaron
Lanier
, Martin
Rees
, Esther
Dyson
, Brian
Eno
, Yossi
Vardi
, Tim
O'Reilly
, Chris
Anderson
, Rupert
Sheldrake
, Daniel
C. Dennett
, Aubrey
de
Grey
, Nicholas

Carr, Linda
Stone
, George

Dyson,Steven

Pinker, Alan
Alda
, Stewart

Brand, Sherry

Turkle,

Rudy
Rucker
, Freeman

Dyson, Douglas
Rushkoff
.