Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951, Zurich, Switzerland ) is an American IT journalist.
Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson. Her brother George Dyson is a well-known consultant and philosopher in the field of digital technologies. Her grandfather was the composer George Dyson.
Education & Careers
After her studies in economics at Harvard Dyson began a single-minded career as an editor for the final American business magazine Forbes and was quickly promoted to reporter. In 1977 she joined the New Court Securities, a: as a market research department, having previously worked at Federal Express and other start-ups. After working as a consultant at the investment bank Oppenheimer Holdings for the area software company, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 took over the company from her employer Ben Rosen, in order to reposition it under the name of Edventure Holdings.
Esther Dyson was from 2004 to 2006 managing editor at CNET Networks and also responsible for the monthly newsletter. The PC forum, a significant annual leadership conference of the technology market, took place in 2006 for the last time and is replaced by a series of new events for aerospace and healthcare.
Edventure projects
Dyson are their projects catchy names that represent a standard in the sector:
- Release 0.9 is Dyson's blog on ZDNet, take care of in addition to Release 1.0 to issues that are still " beta".
- Release 1.0 was the influential monthly newsletter that reported for 20 years on new trends and future strategies in the technology sector. He is to appear in 2007 by O'Reilly with a new team and new content focus than Release 2.0.
- Release 2.0 is a book that Dyson has published in 1997. It describes the effects of the Internet on the lives of all people. The complete title is: Release 2.0: A design for living in a digital age. An updated version was published under the name of Release 2.1, 1998.
- Release 3.0 was Dyson 's for twice- monthly column for The New York Times, which has also been published in many member newspapers. Dyson published this content also in your own newsletter.
- Release 4.0 was Dyson 's Weblog, which was relocated in the wake of the takeover of Edventure by CNET Networks in early 2005 to Flickr. Was accompanied by a reorientation of the content format of the blog to a collection of photos and comments, a style that has since been adopted by many opinion-forming bloggers. The essential content from the PC forum, Flight School and the Forum for Healthcare can now be found in ZDNet blog Travels with Esther.
Dyson and her company specialize in impact analyzes, how will rapidly developing technologies affect the markets, the economy and on society?
Non-commercial projects
Dyson is an active participant in various non-profit organizations. They invested time, money and personal contacts in Glasses for Humanity, Bridges.org, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Eurasia Foundation. For two years she served as a founding board member of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Space travel
On 7 October 2008, the company Space Adventures announced that Esther Dyson will undergo training as a space participant. She was reserve for Charles Simonyi, who flew in March 2009 with Soyuz TMA- 14 for a short-term stay on the International Space Station. Dyson completed a full training, but would only come to a space flight when Simonyi would have been prevented.