Not all that much, Dyson says.

Question: How would you update your 1997 book Release 2.0?

Esther Dyson: I wouldn’t update it that much which I am proud to say and sometimes I read stuff that people put out now is a new stuff and actually I wrote some of that back in ‘97 or even before that I think the one thing that has full surprised in to pointed me as how little people seem to take control of their own, their own persona on the net there is a lot of talk about privacy and back in 1997 and still now I think people should be more we are this more active in just take more time managing their presence on line, it is beginning to happen face book with it’s privacy controls lot of this controversy of that privacy now as making people understand that oh, there is such asset they should mange and you could say well I don’t want to bother to manage this asset, I want things to be the way they were, and same way I don’t want to keep all these records so that I have to pay taxes and I don’t want to manage all the paper work around my health care life is complicated. And life on line is complicated in that way too if you are going to scatter your presence out a minute then the either you are responsible for it or some one else can do what they want with it and it is, it is a new capability but every asset is a liability and disguise and every capability is a responsibility and discuss.

Question: What has held true in the last decade?

Esther Dyson: The importance of stuff on line in the first place the excitement of the accessibility of information, the importance of two way it is not simply oh, I can go get information on the internet but oh, I can go post information on the internet I can communicate with other people, the erosion of central authority, the erosion of the official story whether it is true or not true it is cuts both ways and this whole thing about content will become de facto free not because it has no value but because it is so easy to get hold of and the way to make money then it is a think of new business models like services what personal attention what waiting for the accuracy and reliability of the information getting it quickly filtering all those kinds of things so it is the curation of the content rather than  the content itself that you can try toward and that has all come to fashions bits.

Recorded on: 03/21/2008