Esther Dyson

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Esther Dyson (2005)

Esther Dyson (born July 14, 1951 in Zurich , Switzerland ) is an American IT journalist who, as the founding board member of ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is a pioneer of the Internet, venture capital investor and, with the fortune thus gained, also one Philanthropist.

Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson and Verena Huber-Dyson . Her brother George Dyson is a well-known advisor and philosopher in the field of digital technologies. Her grandfather was the composer George Dyson .

Education and career

After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, Dyson embarked on a determined career as a final editor at American business magazine Forbes and was quickly promoted to reporter. She joined New Court Securities in 1977 as a market research department , having previously worked at Federal Express and other start-ups. After working at the investment bank Oppenheimer Holdings as a consultant for software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and took over the company from her employer Ben Rosen in 1983, in order to reposition it under the name Edventure Holdings.

Esther Dyson was Managing Editor at CNET Networks from 2004 to 2006 and also responsible for the monthly newsletter. The PC Forum, a major annual conference for technology market leaders, was last held in 2006 and is being replaced by a series of new aerospace and healthcare events.

Edventure projects

Dyson gives their projects catchy names that represent a standard in the respective industry:

  • Release 0.9 is Dyson's blog on ZDNet, which, in addition to Release 1.0, takes care of topics that are still “beta”.
  • Release 1.0 was the influential monthly newsletter that reported on new trends and future strategies in the technology sector for 20 years. It should appear in 2007 by O'Reilly with a new team and a new content orientation as Release 2.0.
  • Release 2.0 is a book Dyson published in 1997. It describes the effects of the Internet on everyone's life. The full title is: Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age . An updated version was published under the name Release 2.1 1998.
  • Release 3.0 was Dyson's bi-monthly column for the New York Times , which was also published in many affiliated newspapers. Dyson also published this content in its own newsletter.
  • Release 4.0 was Dyson's Weblog , which was relocated to Flickr in early 2005 as part of the takeover of Edventure by CNET Networks . This was accompanied by a realignment of the content format of the blog to a collection of photos and comments, a style that has now been adopted by many opinion-forming bloggers. The main content from the PC forum, flight school and the health care forum can now be found in the ZDNet blog Travels with Esther .

Dyson and its companies specialize in impact analysis: how will the rapidly developing technologies affect markets, economic life and societies?

Non-commercial projects

Dyson is an active participant in various non-profit organizations. She invests time, personal contacts and money in Glasses for Humanity , Bridges.org, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Eurasia Foundation . For two years she was founding director of ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers .

Esther Dyson is a board member of The Long Now Foundation .

Space travel

On October 7th, 2008 the company Space Adventures announced that Esther Dyson will complete an apprenticeship as a space participant. It was reserve for Charles Simonyi , who flew with Soyuz TMA-14 for a short stay to the International Space Station in March 2009 . Dyson received full training, but would only have made a space flight if Simonyi had been prevented.

Web links

Commons : Esther Dyson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release 0.9 on ZDNet
  2. ↑ Esther's stuff , Esther Dyson's weblog
  3. ↑ Esther Dyson by Flickr
  4. ↑ http://longnow.org/people/board/
  5. ↑ Space Adventures: Space Adventures Announces Esther Dyson as Back-Up Crew Member for Spring 2009 Spaceflight Mission. (No longer available online.) October 7, 2008, archived from the original ; accessed on November 22, 2008 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Dyson, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American IT journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland