Esther Dyson
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Oct 12, 2026
John BiggsHOST
I'm John Biggs.
John BiggsHOST
Today on the show, we have Esther Dyson.
John BiggsHOST
Uh, she's an author, most recently of a forthcoming book called In Defense of Limits: Human Time and AI Scale, and Esther Dyson is also a national treasure.
John BiggsHOST
She, uh, she's been a thinker, a futurist for decades.
John BiggsHOST
I grew up reading her, so welcome, Esther.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Ironically, giving away U.S. control of the route might be what allows a globalized Internet to last.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Esther Dyson, ICANN's first board chair, has said that ICANN's purpose was to preserve a vacuum of Internet power, controlled diffusely by everybody rather than one government or company.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Domain governance does retain residual ties to the US.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The fact that ICANN is registered as a California nonprofit attracted a spotlight in 2019, when the nonprofit that runs .org agreed to sell it for 1.1 billion to a private equity firm, co-founded by a former ICANN CEO.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Ironically, giving away U.S. control of the route might be what allows a globalized Internet to last.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Esther Dyson, ICANN's first board chair, has said that ICANN's purpose was to preserve a vacuum of Internet power, controlled diffusely by everybody rather than one government or company.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Domain governance does retain residual ties to the US.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The fact that ICANN is registered as a California nonprofit attracted a spotlight in 2019, when the nonprofit that runs .org agreed to sell it for 1.1 billion to a private equity firm, co-founded by a former ICANN CEO.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Ironically, giving away U.S. control of the route might be what allows a globalized Internet to last.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Esther Dyson, ICANN's first board chair, has said that ICANN's purpose was to preserve a vacuum of internet power, controlled diffusely by everybody rather than one government or company.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Domain governance does retain residual ties to the US.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The fact that ICANN is registered as a California nonprofit attracted a spotlight in 2019, when the nonprofit that runs .org agreed to sell it for 1.1 billion to a private equity firm, co-founded by a former ICANN CEO.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Ironically, giving away U.S. control of the route might be what allows a globalized Internet to last.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Esther Dyson, ICANN's first board chair, has said that ICANN's purpose was to preserve a vacuum of Internet power, controlled diffusely by everybody rather than one government or company.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Domain governance does retain residual ties to the US.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The fact that ICANN is registered as a California nonprofit attracted a spotlight in 2019, when the nonprofit that runs .org agreed to sell it for 1.1 billion to a private equity firm, co-founded by a former ICANN CEO.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Ironically, giving away U.S. control of the route might be what allows a globalized Internet to last.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Esther Dyson, ICANN's first board chair, has said that ICANN's purpose was to preserve a vacuum of Internet power, controlled diffusely by everybody rather than one government or company.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Domain governance does retain residual ties to the US.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The fact that ICANN is registered as a California nonprofit attracted a spotlight in 2019, when the nonprofit that runs .org agreed to sell it for 1.1 billion to a private equity firm, co-founded by a former ICANN CEO.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Ironically, giving away US control of the root might be what allows a globalized Internet to last.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Esther Dyson, ICANN's first board chair, has said that ICANN's purpose was to preserve a vacuum of Internet power controlled diffusely by everybody rather than one government or company.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Domain governance does retain residual ties to the US.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The fact that ICANN is registered as a California nonprofit attracted a spotlight in 2019 when the nonprofit that runs .org agreed to sell it for one point one billion to a private equity firm co-founded by a former ICANN CEO.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Ironically, giving away US control of the root might be what allows a globalized Internet to last.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Esther Dyson, ICANN's first board chair, has said that ICANN's purpose was to preserve a vacuum of Internet power controlled diffusely by everybody rather than one government or company.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Domain governance does retain residual ties to the US.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The fact that ICANN is registered as a California nonprofit attracted a spotlight in two thousand and nineteen when the nonprofit that runs dot org agreed to sell it for one point one billion to a private equity firm co-founded by a former ICANN CEO.
Elon MuskSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
three days maybe.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
I was curious in general, what do you think of the Silicon Valley mantra, fail fast, fail often, or as Esther Dyson says, always make new mistakes, as if failure is the crucible of learning.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
I'm curious if you had any further thoughts on that, and that maybe off-the-cuff comment you made out there.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
I