Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is the Internet's court jester, an active participant with no formal power but with interests in most interesting new developments. She is on the board of consumer genomics company 23andMe, and an investor in thingd and Rezz.it, both on her panel about "The Internet of Things." She is also on the boards of Airship Ventures, Meetup, Evernote, Voxiva (mobile health), WPP Group (the big marketing company) and several others. Her investments include health-oriented companies such as Keas and PatientsLikeMe, and she is publishing her genome online at personalgenome.org. Last year, she came to DLD from Star CIty, Russia, where she was training as a backup cosmonaut. This year, she's heading to Davos and then to Russia to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

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