{"id":608,"date":"2008-01-01T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/01\/01\/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T21:59:28","slug":"what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/01\/01\/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What have you changed your mind about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/askslashdot\/08\/01\/01\/1313203.shtml\">highlighted<\/a> this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_index.html\">fantastic collection of responses<\/a> to that question, posed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/questioncenter.html\">Edge World Question Center<\/a> to a wide (and impressive) array of people.   I was unknowingly familiar with previous work of this organization, having read and enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWhat-Believe-but-Cannot-Prove%2Fdp%2F0060841818%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1199223720%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=blacknellnet-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">What We Believe But Cannot Prove<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0  Apparently this is an annual exercise, with this year&#8217;s question being &#8220;What have you changed your mind about?&#8221;  A few of the responses include Georgetown Provost James O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s telling us that he&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_1.html#odonnell\">stopped cheering for the Romans<\/a>&#8220;, Douglas Rushkoff explaining why he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_1.html#rushkoff\">isn&#8217;t so sure the Internet will change people anymore<\/a>, and Alan Alda revealing that he&#8217;s changed his mind about God.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_8.html#alda\">Twice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating set of responses, and I suspect I&#8217;ll be spending a decent bit of time reading them over the next week.\u00c2\u00a0 It happens that I&#8217;ve been working on getting my old archives (both from previous solo efforts and group blogs) into shape for adding here, and it&#8217;s given me reason to consider my changing political principles over the years.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope my own (eventual) writing on the subject can be as thoughtful as some of these responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot highlighted this fantastic collection of responses to that question, posed by the Edge World Question Center to a wide (and impressive) array of people. I was unknowingly familiar with previous work of this organization, having read and enjoyed What We Believe But Cannot Prove.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently this is an annual exercise, with this year&#8217;s question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}