I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

From 1998 to 2000 Esther Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Release 2. She is also a member of the boards of the Sunlight Foundation StopBadware The Long Now Foundation and a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute.

Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor entrepreneur philanthropist and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare government transparency digital technology biotechnology and space. On 7 October 2008 Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi's trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009. Dyson is currently focusing her career on preemptive healthcare and continues to invest in health technology.