Esther Dyson Messages

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.