Every year the folks at Edge send the same question out to a large number of scientists, artists, etc and publish their answers. The 2007 question was “What have you changed your mind about?”. As with every year this, like TED, is a good way to judge what is currently “big” in the world…

I’m going to copy the entire of Clay Shirky’s entry as it’s so good I might want to come back and find it later…

I was a science geek with a religious upbringing, an Episcopalian upbringing, to be precise, which is pretty weak tea as far as pious fervor goes. Raised in…