{"id":3727,"date":"2010-01-11T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:57:45","slug":"how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_index.html\"><em>Edge<\/em> World Question Center<\/a> is out, posing the query mentioned in the title.  My own answer is kind of lukewarm &#8212; the internet did allow me to find my future wife, which certainly changed the way I think about a lot of things, but that&#8217;s not the tack I wanted to take for this project.  Instead, I&#8217;m basically giving credit to you blog readers for keeping me honest.  (Among other things.)<\/p>\n<p>But many of the other answers are fascinating.  Just to pick some at semi-random, I enjoyed the responses from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_1.html#hillis\">Danny Hillis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_10.html#aguirre\">Anthony Aguirre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_16.html#wilczek\">Frank Wilczek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_15.html#stodden\">Victoria Stodden<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_2.html#rees\">Martin Rees<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_3.html#atran\">Scott Atran<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_2.html#randall\">Lisa Randall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_10.html#pepperberg\">Irene Pepperberg<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_1.html#shirky\">Clay Shirky<\/a>.  Keep thinking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Edge World Question Center is out, posing the query mentioned in the title. My own answer is kind of lukewarm &#8212; the internet did allow me to find my future wife, which certainly changed the way I think about a lot of things, but that&#8217;s not the tack I wanted to take for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}