Esther Dyson

Author, Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age

Esther Dyson is a journalist and commentator on emerging digital technology. She served as chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation from July 1995 to January 1998. She served as founding chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 1998 to 2000. The author of the book Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age which suggested a sender- pays model for e-mail in 1997. She also wrote a New York Times op-ed called "You've Got Goodmail," supporting a voluntary recipient-charges/sender-pays model for email. She presented at the 2008 Singularity Summit on her plan to spend six months in Russia training to be an astronaut.

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2008 Singularity Summit, presentation
Charlie Rose, Esther Dyson interview