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John Perry bArlow | foreword
John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher, Grateful Dead
lyricist, and co-founder (and current co-chair) of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. He was the first to apply the term “cyber-
space” to the “place” it presently describes. Barlow has written
for many diverse publications, including
Mondo 2000,
the
New
York Times,
Utne Reader,
and
Time.
He has been on the masthead
of
Wired
magazine since it was founded. His piece on the future
of copyright, “The Economy of Ideas,” is taught in many law
schools and his “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
is posted on thousands of websites. In 1997, Barlow was a Fellow
at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and since 1998 he has been a
Berkman Fellow at the Harvard Law School. He works actively
with several consulting groups, including Diamond Technology
Partners, Vanguard, and Global Business Network. He writes,
speaks, and consults on a broad variety of subjects, particularly
the digital economy.
Barlow lives in Wyoming, New York, San Francisco, on the
road, and in cyberspace.
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