What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

Having been without a personal computer for the past few years, until just last summer, I was oblivious to the simple perks (RSS feeds, itunes U) and vast potential of the world wide web -just this winter I connected (for free!) with friends in Seoul over my first video chat using Skype.

Gen-Xer makes peace with the world of technology, which future generations will have never lived without -it's charming in a clownish sort of way.

Surfing the web a month or so ago I came across my now favorite web-contributer Kevin Kelly. How I happened upon him I can't even remember, but if you want news and insight on ground-breaking, barrier-pushing and cutting-edge technologies, theories and institutions, you'd do well to visit his site. You can still read The New York Times, but you won't find it nearly as exciting.

This year Mr. Kelly posed the Edge Annual World Question: "What have you changed your mind about?" Mr. Kelly's answer? That Wikipedia actually works! An answer pertinent to our cause here at The Green Appeal, can be found on the same page as Mr. Kelly's (click his name above) from futurist Peter Schwartz, concerning the importance of nuclear power.

Previous questions: 2007, What are you optimistic about? 2006, What is your dangerous idea? 2005, What do you believe is true even though you can't prove it?

Sign me up for the cybernetic micro-processor nano brain implant that will help me read and process all this before breakfast is ready!