Experts
Esther Dyson
Entrepreneur / Philanthropist; Board Member, 23andMe
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The Altruism of Genetic Testing
For scientists to better correlate genes and disease, millions of people need to voluntarily have their genomes analyzed. Read More
July 20, 2009 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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Are we going to colonize outer space?
Starting with a clean slate. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Should the government be involved in healthcare?
How do we design a system that incentivizes good behavior? Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Health & Medicine
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How are technological advances changing human evolution?
Medical technology can also make us less physically fit, Dyson says. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Putting Genomics Maps to Good Use
Making good behavior easier. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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Genomics just got personal. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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As an investor, what do you look for in a start-up?
Dyson wants to make sure her money does something unique. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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What will be on other side of the recession?
Dyson looking towards personalized genomics. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Is investment in Web 2.0 slowing?
The web is saturated with video, Dyson says, and a recession will help drain the swamp. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Maintaining Privacy on Facebook
The problem, Dyson says, is not the platform but the individual users. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Should Facebook open up its user platform?
Where did Yahoo miss the boat? Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Would you invest in Michael Arrington's blog aggregate?
Probably not, Dyson says. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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The Russian Media and the Internet
As unconstrained speech is pushed online, where does the new threat come from? Government or corporate interests? Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Can China control information flow?
Dyson is doubtful. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In World
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Dyson talks about the threats to online security, and how governments, corporations and individuals can address that. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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How has technology changed the way you live?
Let’s start with email, Dyson says. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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What does it take for a woman to be a leader in technology?
Same thing as a man. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Why are there so few women in technology?
Incumbents like to keep control, Dyson says. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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It is your responsibility, Dyson says, to make sure that you are not misrepresented online. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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How would you update your 1997 book Release 2.0?
Not all that much, Dyson says. Read More
April 4, 2008 | In Media & Internet
Esther Dyson does business as EDventure Holdings, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004. In the last few years, she has turned her sights towards IT and health care. She dedicated two issues of her newsletter, Release 1.0, to the topic (Health and Identity: No Patient Left Behind? in January 2005 and Personal Health Information: Data Comes Alive! in September 2005). Also in September 2005, she ran the Personal Health Information workshop that laid out many of the challenges still perplexing the health-care community.
Currently, she is one of the initial ten subjects of George Church's Personal Genome Project. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include Boxbe, CVO Group (Hungary), Eventful.com, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, and WPP Group and Yandex (Russia).
Some of her past direct IT investments include Flickr, Del.icio.us, BrightMail, Medstory and Orbitz. Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN from 1998 to 2000, and was also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the 90's. In 1997, she wrote Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, which appeared in paperback a year later as Release 2.1. In 1994, she wrote a seminal essay on intellectual property for Wired magazine.
