Esther Dyson Enters Full-Time Cosmonaut Training, Just in Case
You'd be crazy to call Esther Dyson a space cadet, right? Dyson’s cred as technology prognosticator and influencer is about as solid as it gets, thanks to a decades-long career as a prolific angel investor, writer, and until 2006, organizer of PC Forum, the gold standard in tech conferences for more than 20 years. Yet a space cadet Dyson will be if certain stars align. The space enthusiast is spending the next six months in a $3 million cosmonaut training program at a center near Moscow, where she is being instructed as back-up for billionaire Charles Simonyi.
8 October 2008•2 mins read
