Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951[ Multiple citations:
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Esther Dyson on Huffington Post
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George, Don (4 November 1997). "Road Warrior: Esther Dyson" . Salon Wanderlust. Retrieved 12 October 2008. "Esther Dyson, one of the preeminent visionaries of the digital age – and a quintessential road warrior .. She also invests in and sits on the boards of several U.S. start-ups. In addition, Dyson is chairwoman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit civil liberties organization"
Dyson's career now focuses on health
Education and early life
Esther Dyson's father was English-born, American-naturalized physicist
Freeman Dyson, and her mother was mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, of Swiss parentage; her brother is science historian George Dyson. Her paternal grandfather was the composer Sir George Dyson.
[ Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite by John Brockman (HardWired Books, 1996)] She was educated at Harvard University, where she studied economics and wrote for
The Harvard Crimson.
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Career
After graduating she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977, she joined New Court Securities[ ] following FedEx and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer Holdings covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research in 1982. In 1983, when she bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, Dyson renamed the company EDventure Holdings and his Rosen Electronic Letter newsletter Release 1.0.[about which she wrote in 1997: " RELease 1.0 - get it?"] She and business partner Daphne Kis sold EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004 and left CNET in January 2007.
On 7 October 2008, Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi's trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009.[ "Space Adventures Announces Esther Dyson as Back-Up Crew Member for Spring 2009 Spaceflight Mission" . Space Adventures. 7 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-12. "Esther Dyson, an investor in Space Adventures .. will train as the back-up crew member alongside orbital spaceflight candidate Charles Simonyi, PhD, who is currently planning a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2009. .. The price of the back-up crew member program is $3,000,000 (USD), which includes the required spaceflight training costs, along with accommodations in Star City"]
In 1997, Dyson wrote that as of that time she had never voted.
Publications and business ventures
Currently, Dyson is a board member and active investor in a variety of start-ups, mostly in online services, health care, logistics, artificial intelligence, emerging markets, and space travel.[ Esther Dyson's Board Seats & Investments. EDventure.] She was a board member of Yandex until March 2022.
Previously, Dyson and her company EDventure Holdings specialized in analyzing the effect of emerging technologies and markets on economies and societies. She produced the following publications on technology:
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Release 1.0, her monthly technology-industry newsletter. Until 2006, Dyson wrote most issues herself and edited the others.
[ Release 1.0 and 2.0 at O'Reilly]
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Rel-EAST, a sister newsletter focused on the technology industry in Eastern Europe.
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Release 2.0, her 1997 book on how the Internet affects individuals' lives. Its full title is Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age. The revision Release 2.1 was published in 1998.
Philanthropy
Dyson is an active member of a number of non-profit and advisory organizations. From 1998 to 2000, she was the founding chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. As of 2004, she sat on its "reform" committee (the At-Large Advisory Committee), dedicated to defining a role for individuals in ICANN's decision-making and governance structures.
Other pursuits
Dyson was one of the first ten volunteers for the Personal Genome Project.
Dyson has served as a judge
See also
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Space Adventures clients who trained, but did not fly in space
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