Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson
Esther Dysonis a Swiss-born American journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator and philanthropist. She is a leading angel investor focused on breakthrough efficacy in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space. Dyson is currently focusing her career on production of health and continues to invest in health and technology startups. She is the founder of HICCup...
kids wrinkles students
When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.
junk filters online
I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.
listening-to-others visionaries way
Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
media quality landscape
New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.
world benefits internet
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
santa-fe santa boards
I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.
economy market-economy understood
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
integrity believe thinking
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
integrity believe thinking
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
home community design
The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.
technology phones cells
People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
technology people needs
People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.
eye giving together
We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.
concrete create decided figure job needed negotiate permanent rather system
We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.