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Esther Dyson, Chairman of EDventure Holdings, is an entrepreneur and angel investor concentrating on emerging markets and technologies. She is a board member of numerous companies, including 23andMe, Eventful, Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva, WPP Group, XCOR Aerospace, and Yandex, and was an early investor in such notable start-ups as Evernote, Flickr, Mashery, Medstory, Omada Health, and Square.

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  1. The Next-Generation Greenhouse
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    The Next-Generation Greenhouse

    Aug 27, 2014 Esther Dyson extols the promise of vertical "plant production units."

  2. The Facebook Furor
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    The Facebook Furor

    Jul 25, 2014 Esther Dyson explores the roots of public outrage over the social-networking site's psychological experiment.

  3. A User’s Guide to Conferences
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    A User’s Guide to Conferences

    Jun 27, 2014 Esther Dyson explains how organizers, speakers, and participants can benefit the most from industry meetings.

  4. The Private Sector’s Privacy Puzzle
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    The Private Sector’s Privacy Puzzle

    May 27, 2014 Esther Dyson explores when and why people are likely to share their data.

  5. The Great Global Bazaar

    The Great Global Bazaar

    Apr 23, 2014 Esther Dyson on the importance of an open mind and a willingness to wander off the beaten path.

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    American CHIPS Off the Chinese Block

    Anne O. Krueger worries that a new $52 billion subsidy program will undermine competition and innovation in a key industry.
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    The Republican God That Failed

    Nina L. Khrushcheva considers the implications of Liz Cheney’s primary loss for the GOP and American democracy.
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    A Turkish Playbook for Fighting Populism

    Seren Selvin Korkmaz shows how an opposition alliance is threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s autocratic rule.
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    Brexit Britain Confronts Reality

    Chris Patten holds out little hope that political leaders will offer voters an honest assessment of the country’s problems.
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    The Post-Global Economy

    Many argue that the combined effects of the 2008 global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, Sino-American decoupling, and Russia’s war against Ukraine have dealt an irreversible blow to three decades of open trade and burgeoning supply chains. How should policymakers and businesses respond to the apparent demise of globalization, and what new paradigm might replace it?

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    The New Resilience Paradigm

    Anthea Roberts & Jensen Sass explain why we need a new, post-neoliberal policy paradigm that places resilience at its center.
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    Who Will Establish Metaverse Ethics?

    Josh Entsminger, et al. highlight the urgency of providing oversight before tech companies make self-regulation the norm.
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    The Belarusian Opposition Is Growing Stronger

    Sławomir Sierakowski cites many examples showing that the country’s democracy movement has been adapting and growing quickly.
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    A Bold and Realistic Energy Transition

    Sultan Al Jaber explains why policies aimed at divesting too soon from hydrocarbons will be self-defeating.

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