EDGE Question 2008: What have you changed your mind about? [1]

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 [3]'s John Brockman [4] 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 [5].

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 [6]: Link [7] to "Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands [8]."

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

Tor Nørretranders [9], W. Daniel Hillis [10], Ray Kurzweil [11], David Gelernter [12], Kai Krause [13], Clay Shirky [14], J. Craig Venter [15], Simon Baron-Cohen [16], Jaron Lanier [17], Martin Rees [18], Esther Dyson [19], Brian Eno [20], Yossi Vardi [21], Tim O'Reilly [22], Chris Anderson [23], Rupert Sheldrake [24],Daniel C. Dennett [25], Aubrey de Grey [26], Nicholas Carr [27], Linda Stone [28], George Dyson [29],Steven Pinker [30], Alan Alda [31], Stewart Brand [32], Sherry Turkle [33], Rudy Rucker [34],Freeman Dyson [35], Douglas Rushkoff [36] .