His ideas captured the mood of a generation that believed people could reinvent themselves in a new virtual world with no government controls and no national boundaries. A feud erupted backstage over a couplet in "Sugar Magnolia" from the band's most recent release (most likely "She can dance a Cajun rhythm/Jump like a Willys in four-wheel drive"), culminating in a disgruntled Hunter summoning Barlow and telling him "take [Weir]—he's yours". [79], Barlow appeared in many films and television shows, both as an actor and as himself. They range in age from less than half to almost twice my own. [7] He grew up on Bar Cross Ranch near Pinedale, Wyoming, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) property his great-uncle founded in 1907, and attended elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse. "[76], For several years, Barlow attended Burning Man. Barlow recognised the changing business model and analysed it in an essay, The Economy of Ideas, published in Wired magazine in 1994. John Perry Barlow was born near Cora, Wyoming (near Jackson Hole), on October 3, 1947. His father had suffered a stroke, and died the following year. In 2004, he said that he was "voting for John Kerry, though with little enthusiasm". The act of finding a port into cyberspace would be part of the adventure… Before I left, I believed Africans could proceed directly from the agricultural epoch into an information economy without having to submit to the dreary indignities and social pathologies of industrialization. Learn more about his life and career. John Perry Barlow, a visionary internet pioneer, passed away in his sleep on February 6 at the age of 70. By JOHN PERRY BARLOW – DEC. 10, 2001. His father had suffered a debilitating stroke in 1966 before dying in 1972, resulting in a $700,000 business debt. He has three teenaged daughters and aspires to be a good ancestor. John Perry Barlow, who has died aged 70 after a long period of ill health, ... Barlow is survived by his daughters, Leah, Anna and Amelia. [94], Barlow had been a good friend and mentor to John F. Kennedy Jr., ever since his mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had made arrangements for her troublesome son to be a wrangler at the Bar Cross Ranch for six months in 1978. Elaine and John separated in 1992 and divorced in 1995. He wrote a memoir, Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times, which will be published in June. John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and an internet pioneer, died on Wednesday. At Startup Grind Jackson Hole, Barlow also explained how once over tea with "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement" Mardy Murie, he was inspired by her words, "Environmentalists can be a pain in the ass… But they make great ancestors." John Perry Barlow’s sudden death last week shined a spotlight on his high-profile life one last time. In 2002, he helped his friend, the realtor, entrepreneur, [90] model[91] and actress Simone Banos, deliver her daughter Emma Victoria, whom he regarded as his surrogate daughter thereafter. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. [59], A Fellow Emeritus of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, past member of the advisory board of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants (1994–2008),[60] and a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, Barlow was previously affiliated with the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland as a "professor of cyberspace". There he met Bob Weir, who later co-founded the Grateful Dead. He served on the company's board of directors for several years. [48] He said in 2004: "I'm embarrassed for my country that in my entire voting life, there has never been a major-party candidate whom I felt I could vote for. He would be following her later that day and would see her at the apartment they shared. [32] Instead, ethics, enlightened self-interest and the commonwealth were the elements they believed to create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. It was a response to the arrogance and (digital) ignor- ance of the world’s leaders, and to President Bill Clinton’s foolish Communications Decency Act, which tried to ban offensive material online. His involvement is documented in The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992) by Bruce Sterling. The Internet to him was more than a computer network; he called it an "electronic frontier. Barlow benefited from this viral effect, in that he is most commonly remembered – at least, outside the fraternity of Deadheads – for his sonorous, Jeffersonian paper A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. [61], In his final years, Barlow spent much of his time on the road, lecturing about and consulting on civil rights, freedom of speech, the state of the internet and the EFF. Barlow married Elaine Parker Barlow in 1977, and the couple had three daughters: Amelia Rose, Anna Winter, and Leah Justine. He was seen many times with Carolyn Garcia (whose monologue is dubbed on the eponymous track "Mountain Girl"[38]) at their concerts mixing with the fans and members in the band, and was a close friend of String Cheese Incident producer Jerry Harrison. John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist. 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He was a regular contributor to Wired magazine for many years and one of the founding directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. [54] The EFF was designed to mediate the "inevitable conflicts that have begun to occur on the border between Cyberspace and the physical world". and served as western Wyoming campaign coordinator of Dick Cheney’s 1978 Congressional campaign. John Perry Barlow, American author, lyricist, and cyberspace activist who cofounded (1990) the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which sought to protect the rights and freedoms of individuals in the digital world. This roundtable discussion was at Sweetwater Music Hall in between the showing of the Move Me Brightly Film. Adopting this philosophy, he stated, "I want to be a good ancestor. He wrote that “the best way to raise demand for your product is to give it away,” and that was how Silicon Valley companies took over the web. He co-founded and still co-chairs the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Born: 3-Oct-1947 Birthplace: Cora, WY Died: 7-Feb-2018 Location of death: San Francisco, CA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Pinedale Cemetery, Pinedale, WY Gender: Male Religion: Mormon Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Activist Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States Executive summary: Co-Founder, EFF '"[30], Barlow's writings include "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", written in response to the enactment of the Communications Decency Act in 1996. [75], At Startup Grind Jackson Hole on March 13, 2015, Barlow said that he was motivated to team up with Algae Systems after undergoing back surgery to address pain from an old ranching injury, while he had been an advisor to Herb Allison (president of Merrill Lynch at the time) and working to completely "electronify" financial transactions and speculative asset assembly. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.”. She died unexpectedly in 1994 while asleep on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City, days before her 30th birthday, from a heart arrhythmia apparently caused by undetected viral myocarditis. [17], In late 1971, with a deal for a solo album in hand and only two songs completed, Weir and Barlow began to write together for the first time. [23], In 1996, Barlow was invited to speak about his work in cyberspace to a middle school classroom at North Shore Country Day School. John Perry Barlow. John Perry Barlow, a former cowpoke, Republican politician, and lyricist for the Grateful Dead whose affinity for wide open spaces and free expression … At age 15, Barlow became a student at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [35][36], In 1998, Barlow wrote the article "Africa Rising: Everything You Know About Africa Is Wrong" for Wired, which documented the start of his extensive travels as he worked to expand Internet access across the continent: "I went from Mombasa to Tombouctou, experiencing various parts of Kenya, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Uganda, and the Virunga volcano area where Uganda, Rwanda, and the Congo meet. "[40], One of Barlow's works that has remained in circulation is his "Principles of Adult Behavior", which he wrote in 1977 on the eve of his 30th birthday and continued to use to describe his approach to life. John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Weir and Barlow maintained a close friendship through the years. The news was announced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which Barlow co-founde… He was one of the first to understand that, in an information economy, value is driven not by scarcity but by familiarity. [12] Initially supported by a $5,000 or $1,000[12] advance from the publisher,[10] he decided to eschew these options in favor of spending the next two years traveling around the world, including a nine-month sojourn in India, a riotous winter in a summer cottage on Long Island Sound in Connecticut,[12] and a screenwriting foray in Los Angeles. [43] While he considered most of the 25 statements similar to the platitudes Polonius dispensed to Prince Hamlet, the 15th attracted attention: "Avoid the pursuit of happiness. John Perry Barlow passed away on February 7th, 2018. But he was an early adopter, a pretty fast learner and a larger-than-life communicator. John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 – February 7, 2018) was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian[1] political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. Amelia Barlow, John Perry’s daughter, thanked the “vast web” of infinitely interesting and radical human beings around the world who he cared about and cared about him. [88], Barlow married Elaine Parker Barlow in 1977,[4] and the couple had three daughters: Amelia Rose, Anna Winter, and Leah Justine. That was counter to prevailing thought and "un-American". Barlow was president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council from 1978 to 1984. He was the first to apply the term Cyberspace to the "place" it presently describes. At the time, most bands used concerts to sell records. In reality, Barlow used his fame to help others. This insight is the basis of “viral marketing”, and many of today’s free online services are based on it. [41][42] He described his reason for writing these as he was about to enter adulthood, "my wariness of the pursuit of happiness might be a subtle form of treason". I love the feel of that tension, the delicious gravity of possibilities."[97]. [22] EFF later sponsored the groundbreaking case Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service in support of Steve Jackson Games. [92][93], He was engaged to Cynthia Horner, a doctor whom he met in 1993 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco while she was attending a psychiatry conference and Barlow was participating in a Steve Jobs comedy roast at a convention for the NeXT Computer. Barlow saw this more as a way to challenge how one perceived their life, their job, and their goals in life, and to not see achieving happiness as "an obligation [one owes] to Jefferson, the United States, or God Itself".[43]. See more ideas about john perry barlow, barlow, john perry. 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