alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... had previously raised seed funding from Boston Harbor Angels and angels including space happy Esther Dyson. XCOR plans low cost space flight with a vehicle called the Lynx, which it says will safely take two paying passengers to the edge of space. View - site...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... well as continuing investment from well-known angel investors and industry trend setters such as Esther Dyson "Desert Sky's commitment to XCOR is an important vote of confidence in the company," says XCOR's new Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Nelson, a former Morgan Stanley banker. "Institutional investors tend to be cautious and deliberate when selecting investments because they...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... well as continuing investment from well-known angel investors and industry trend setters such as Esther Dyson. "Desert Sky's commitment to XCOR is an important vote of confidence in the company," says XCOR's new Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Nelson, a former Morgan Stanley banker. "Institutional investors tend to be cautious and deliberate when selecting investments because they...
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Downs of All-Encompassing Digital Profiles Peter Brown, Privacy in an Age of Terabytes and Terror Esther Dyson, How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security Anna Lysyanskaya, Cryptography: How to Keep Your Secrets Safe
Gauravonomics Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... power of many-to-many deliberation for the common good? In her foreword to the anthology, Esther Dyson sets the stage for the rest of the essays by saying that new communication technologies will continue to be at the core of civic engagement, for better or for worse, so we should better find ways to use them constructively – This anthology of essays is intended to shine light, to...
Later On (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... (though, as we are often reminded, not stated) in the Bill of Rights. In her keynote essay Esther Dyson clarifies what “privacy” means by reminding us what it is not: several important issues commonly labeled dilemmas of privacy are better understood as issues of security, health policy, insurance or self-presentation. Terrorism and digital connectedness have both made privacy a...
