Dyson, Esther

Esther Dyson was born July 14, 1951 in Switzerland , in the family of the British nuclear physicist Freeman Dyson , who in 1957 became a naturalized citizen of the United States, and Verena Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, Swiss by birth. After graduating from the economics department at Harvard University, Esther in 1974 got a job at Forbes magazine as a fact-checking editor, then became a reporter. Since 1977, Dyson worked as an IT market analyst in a number of research companies, and then bought Rosen Research from her employer and renamed it EDventure Holdings.

Since the mid-1980s, Dyson has been publishing Release 1.0. In 1997 , she published her book Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age (In 1998, the Moscow-based publishing house Business and Computer, edited by A. V. Evtyushkin and Yu. A. Kuzmin, released a translation of this book called “ Life in the era of the Internet ”).

On December 31, 2009, by order of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, he was included in the working group to develop a project for the creation of a geographically separate complex for the development of research and development and the commercialization of their results ( Innograd ).

He speaks English, French, Russian and German.

For decades, Dyson has been actively involved in venture financing of startup companies, managing various public organizations. For two years she was chairman of ICANN . Dyson has been to Russia many times and contributed to the development of the domestic IT market. Her articles and interviews are often published in Russian magazines on economics, the high-tech market and intellectual property.

Since 2005, Dyson has become interested in space and medicine: her investment portfolio has been replenished with companies such as MEDESK, XCOR, Constellation Services, Zero-G, Icon Aircraft, Space Adventures and VitaPortal, as well as the 23andMe genetic startup. In 2005, in the city of Aspen, she founded the Flight School forum for entrepreneurs interested in aviation and space exploration.

On October 7, 2008, a message appeared on the Space Adventures website that Esther Dyson was selected as a backup for a spaceflight participant, a member of the 16th expedition to visit the ISS space tourist Charles Simoni , whose flight was planned for the spring of 2009, and paid $ 3 million for her training. In October 2008, by a joint decision of the medical expert commission of the Institute of Biomedical Problems and the Cosmonaut Training Center, she was allowed to take special trainings. On December 19, 2008, by the decision of the Main Medical Commission with the participation of specialists in the IBMP and CPC, E. Dyson was allowed to crew training (pre-flight training).

In January 2009, she switched to training as part of the Soyuz TMA-14 backup crew , along with astronaut Maxim Suraev and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams . On March 3-4, 2009, at the Cosmonaut Training Center, together with them, she passed the preflight exams for an “excellent” mark. During the start of the Soyuz TMA-14 March 26, 2009, Esther Dyson was the understudy of Charles Simoni .

• Biography
• The Long Now Foundation website
• Announcements of activities
• Inter (Actual) View 48: Esther Dyson to The Russian Journal January 29, 2002
• Interview with Bliki Magazine “The Most Important Thing - Don't Lose Your Sense of Humor” September 2003
• Interview with Business Magazine January 10, 2009
• Esther Dyson on the site of Astronaut.ru