I’m compelled to say that Dave Pollard definitly is On To Something, or more probably, On To Several Things. He writes a huge amount of sensible stuff in his blog “How to Save the World”, covering topics from economics, creativity and research, the environment and business, to the act of conversation.
Definitely worth a look – if you don’t mind being provoked into thinking about stuff.
I discovered that blog a while ago as well — a constantly renewable resource of ideas, but perhaps a bit pessimistic…
Here’s another one you might know of: http://edge.org/
Yeah, I’ve stopped reading Dave Pollard’s blog… It seemed to me that he ran out of things to write about. :-/