Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is currently working on the final edit of her new book, “Term Limits: Time and scale in the age of AI,” due from MIT Press in January 2027. It’s about the dynamic tension between finite, unique, non-fungible humans, and the culture of exponential growth, longevity/immortality, the quantification of everything and the relentless search for more…
After graduating from Harvard with an economics degree, Dyson began her journalism career at Forbes, quickly rising from fact-checker to reporter. In 1977, she became a securities analyst on Wall Street, following high-tech stocks. This ignited her interest in high-tech and prompted her to join Rosen Research in 1982. Dyson bought the company and renamed it EDventure Holdings in 1983. EDventure published Release 1.0, an influential computer-industry monthly newsletter, and led PC Forum, a high-profile annual technology conference, up until 2007. During that time, Dyson wrote the best-selling book "Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age," published in 1996.
Dyson was chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ICANN in each organization's early days. Focusing on health, open government, digital technology/AI, intellectual property, and outer space among other things, she has made angel investments in Russia, Africa, Eastern Europe, India and the US as well as other places. In 2008-2009, she trained in Star City outside Moscow as a backup space tourist for a trip to the International Space Station. She is one of the first ten volunteers in the Personal Genome Project and sits on the boards of Avanlee Care, BAMF Health, and PressReader, as well as nonprofits including Charity Navigator and ExpandED Schools.