Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is 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 health and continues to invest in health and technology startups.

On 7 October 2008, Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi’s trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009.

Date of birth:
14th July, 1951
"Don’t leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you’re doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don’t think about technology first."
― Esther Dyson
Topic(s): Technology
"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don’t expect the world that we’re familiar with to be perfect."
― Esther Dyson
Topic(s): Technology
"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
― Esther Dyson
Topic(s): Technology
"But there is a corollary to freedom and that’s personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."
― Esther Dyson
Topic(s): Freedom
"Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better."
― Esther Dyson
Topic(s): Change

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