Why not the telephone or television or radio? I mean, why do you think that. GROSS: So you see the Internet as something that, you know, more than any other technological advancement is going to change what it means to be human. And saying is this a good thing or a bad thing is a little like saying is the weather a good thing or a bad thing? You know, sometimes it's sunny and beautiful and grows flowers, and sometimes it rips the roof off your house. So I assume that a lot of things will come as a result of the Internet. And, you know, the transfer of all of human knowledge into the - into bits is probably the most sweeping technological occurrence since the capture of fire in terms of its long-term capacity to change what it is to be human. But.īARLOW: You know, I think this is a very, very large event in the history of humanity - I mean, the coming of the net. JOHN PERRY BARLOW: Well I have - (laughter), I'm a Taoist, so I have two visions of everything. TERRY GROSS, BYLINE: Do you have two visions of the Internet - one a utopian vision and the other a dystopian vision? Terry interviewed John Perry Barlow in 1996. There's a lot of room to define yourself. There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and open space, Barlow told People magazine in 1995. He was born into a family of Wyoming ranchers and later ran a cattle ranch he inherited from his family for nearly two decades until he sold it in 1988. In 1996, he issued an influential manifesto titled "A Declaration Of The Independence Of Cyberspace."īut his background wasn't in computers. In 1990 during the early days of the worldwide web, Barlow cofounded the Electronic Frontier Foundation to defend civil liberties in cyberspace. Barlow was also an occasional lyricist for the Grateful Dead, writing songs with the Dead's guitarist, Bob Weir. Wired magazine called Barlow the bard of the Internet. John Perry Barlow, an expressive advocate for a free and open Internet, died on Wednesday.
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