ESTHER DYSON

'Esther Dyson' (born 14 July, 1951 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a commentator on emerging digital technology and a founding member of the
digerati.
Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977, she joined New Court Securities as "the research department," following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, renaming it EDventure Holdings. She sold EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004, and left CNET in January 2007, closing her PC Forum conference.
Dyson and her company EDventure specialize in analyzing the impact of emerging technologies and markets on economies and societies. She created the following publications on technology:

★ Release 1.0, her monthly technology-industry newsletter, published by EDventure Holdings. Until 2006, Dyson wrote several issues herself and edits the others. When she left CNET, the newsletter was picked up by O'Reilly Media, which appointed Jimmy Guterman to edit it and renamed the newsletter Release 2.0, which is also...

★ Release 2.0, her 1997 book on how the Internet affected 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.

★ Release 3.0, her bimonthly column for the New York Times, distributed via its syndicate and reprinted in ''Release 1.0''.

★ Release 4.0, her weblog. On March 4, 2005, this weblog moved to Dyson's Flickr account ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/ ).
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, dedicated to defining a role for individuals in ICANN's decision-making and governance structures. She has followed closely the post-Soviet transition of Eastern Europe, and is a member of the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Council, along with Vint Cerf, George Sadowsky, and Veni Markovski, among others. She has served as a trustee of, and helped fund, emerging organizations such as Glasses for Humanity, Bridges.org, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Eurasia Foundation. She is also a member of the board for The Long Now Foundation, trustee for the Santa Fe Institute, the Advisory Board of the Stockholm Challenge Award and is a part-owner of the ''First Monday'' journal. She is now an occasional writer for Arianna Huffington's online Huffington Post.
She has also been a board member or early investor in tech startups, among them Flickr, PowerSet.com, ZEDO,www.cvonline.hu, Medscape, and Medstory.
As of early 2007, Dyson describes herself as "spending more and more time on private aviation and commercial space startups." ^[1] She has made investments in XCOR, Constellation Services, Zero-G,Icon Aircraft and Space Adventures. She has hosted the Flight School conference in Aspen since 2005.

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1. New Horizons for the Intrepid VC (WSJ.com)

External links

★ Wired article

★ Release 1.0 Website.

★ Esther Dyson's writings on the Huffington Post

★ Virginia Postrel, "On the Frontier." Interview with Esther Dyson in ''Reason''

★ New York Times Editorial on Goodmail.

★ Biography of Dyson at edventure.com.

★ The Long Now Foundation.

★ Future events in which Esther Dyson is participating

★ BT Big Thinkers Esther discusses business challenges with thought leaders

★ New Horizons for the Intrepid VC (WSJ.com)

★ Interviewed by Charlie Rose, August 14, 2007 [1]