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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