But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. Esther Dyson More Quotes by Esther Dyson More Quotes From Esther Dyson 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. Esther Dyson internet benefits world The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves. Esther Dyson design community home Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world. Esther Dyson cyberspace real world 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. Esther Dyson citizens technology believe Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent. Esther Dyson land intellectual needs The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future. Esther Dyson resources definitions problem I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure. Esther Dyson fearless achievement real I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country. Esther Dyson mistake country thinking Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets. Esther Dyson listening-to-others visionaries way Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy. Esther Dyson market-economy economy understood I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. Esther Dyson real two years 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. Esther Dyson online filters junk I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff. Esther Dyson integrity believe thinking Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first. Esther Dyson common-sense technology thinking It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power. Esther Dyson simple order needs New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up. Esther Dyson cyberspace quality media 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. Esther Dyson government organization self From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. Esther Dyson intellectual views long As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom. Esther Dyson internet government long What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland. Esther Dyson innovation media book
