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Esther Dyson

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Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world. Her interests include information technology, health care, private aviation, and space travel.

Stories from Esther Dyson

10 Facebooking
Face-to-Face with Facebook
While many protest data sharing, millions of others are calmly managing their reputations online
Esther Dyson
01/07/2010

Long ago, when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in grade school, I wrote a book (Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age) in which I lauded something called “P3” (now p3p), the platform for privacy preferences. I was sure that people would start using P3 or something like it to control access to data about themselves. Of course, I was wrong...for about 10 years. 

Now, at last, it’s starting to happen - though not exactly the way I envisioned it. Nor is it exactly the way Zuckerberg envisioned it... 

10 Google
Big Brother Google?
The danger in digital technology lies in the concentration of information – and thus in a concentration of power
Esther Dyson
Project Syndicate
01/03/2009
“Google violates its ‘don’t be evil’ motto.” To Google’s credit, if you google that sentence, you can find reference to a debate on that claim that I took part in recently.

As it happens, I have a complex relationship with Google. I have fed at its trough many times – as a personal guest; as an advisory board member of Stop Badware, an NGO it sponsors; and as a speaker at its events. I also sit on the board of 23andMe, co-founded by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

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