Cyber Libertarians: Esther Dyson & The Knowledge Age

We look around us now, and the Internet is in every bit of our lives, from the phone in our hands to the smart bulbs at home. It’s easy to forget that the Internet is a recent invention, and not exactly a thing from a distant past. Some of the people who saw it emerge from scratch and even helped shape it are still alive. One of them is Esther Dyson, a Swiss-American journalist, entrepreneur, and IT expert. We may call her a cyber libertarian, too.

She was born in 1951 in Switzerland to the mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson and the physicist Freeman Dyson —the pioneer behind Dyson Spheres. There was no Internet or computers in Esther’s life for a long while. In 1969, when she was 18, the very first nodes of the ARPANET went online between universities in California and Utah, which is considered the Internet’s birth.

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