Esther Dyson

By Carla Jablonski

Esther Dyson is the chairperson of EDventure Holdings. She is the daughter of an English physicist and a Swedish mathematician, and graduated from Harvard in 1974. She has devoted her life to discovering the inevitable and promoting the possible. In 1994, she was one of the first to explore the impact of the Net on intellectual property. As an investor, she focuses on new technologies, emerging markets, and emerging technologies. Dyson is an excellent female role model in the computer industry and in business.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076132657X
• ISBN13: 9780761326571
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

important seer in computing

Another book in this series chronicles Marc Andreesson, the author of the first public browser. The current book talks about someone else who is perhaps lesser known to a typical web user. Though to techies she is certainly a standout. We see that her father, Freeman Dyson, is one of the world's best known living physicists. Whereas Esther made her name by writing an influential newsletter about computing trends, and being often right with her views. The newsletter does not have wide mass circulation, but it reaches key people in technology and finance. She also convenes an annual conference that is by invitation only; bringing top speakers to discuss computing. This book on Esther Dyson is also worthy because it lets girls see a successful role model in a field that is still strongly male dominated.